Download OpenSpending datasets as a data.frame object

[fontanon]

R-project's data.frames are one of best objects for dealing with data that R can provide.

Automating the download of OpenSpending's datasets as dataframes would make easier lots of operations that lists can't.

[mihi-tr]

@fontanon there are two functions openspending.as.data.frame and openspending.list.to.data.frame that do list conversions - do you think these are enough? Or would you rather have the functions give out data frames per default?

[fontanon]

Didn't realized of those functions and they work great!
No need to convert to data.frame as by-default behaviour.

Here's an use case: merging two OpenSpending datasets to compare revenues
https://gist.github.com/fontanon/6341178

[mihi-tr]

Great, thanks!