Guide to using rOpenSci packages during the US Gov't shutdown

Note: This is cross-posted from the rOpenSci blog, which will update with this post when our technical snafu is fixed. With the US government shut down, many of the federal government provided data APIs are down. We write R packages to interact with many of these APIs. We have been tweeting about what APIs that are down related to R pacakges we make, but we thought we would write up a proper blog post on the issue....

October 8, 2013 · 3 min · Scott Chamberlain