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## Desc_JSON_to_df.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                / Desc_JSON_to_df.md
            
            
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              July 22, 2017 22:30
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                Convert a complex JSON to an R data.frame
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    This gist shows how to convert a nested JSON file to an R data.frame.
To do this, it uses jsonlite and data.tree.
The gist contains two examples: one is a bit simpler, the second one a bit more advanced.
Example 1

In the first example, we download all the repos from Hadley Wickham's Github account from https://api.github.com/users/hadley/repos . This JSON contains a nested owner object. The code shows how to convert that in a flat data.frame in three statements:

line 5: download
line 8: convert to data.tree