Introduction

Glasspockets is an initiative of the Foundation Center to collect information on grants administered by U.S. foundations. This package provides an R wrapper for retrieving data from the Glasspockets API

Installation

You can install the glasspockets package via devtools with the following:

library("devtools")
install_github("dhenderson/glasspockets")

Usage

In order to request data from the Glasspockets website, you'll need a free API key, which you can sign up for here.

The glasspocekts package requests data from Glasspockets as JSON. There are two actions you can perform with glasspocekts:

• Query the glasspockets API with glasspockets.api(...)
• Load grants data as a data.frame from a local JSON file retrieved from Glasspockets with load.grants(...)

Querying the Glasspockets API

To query the Glasspockets API, use the glasspockets.api method, which takes the following three arguments:

• query - String search query, typically a foundation name
• file.name - String file name (can include path) to save the JSON file as
• api.key - An API key generated from glasspockets.org

The following is an example of requesting all grants from the Gates Foundation:

gates <- glasspockets.api("Gates Foundation", "gates.json", "YOUR_API_KEY")

The glasspockets.api loads a data.frame where each row is a grant. The JSON file retrieved from Glasspockets is stored locally on your machine, so you can use it again without having to re-retrieve from the Glasspockets API.

Loading a local file retrieved from Glasspockets stored as JSON

Once you have retrieved a JSON file from the Glasspockets API and stored it locally with glasspockets.api, you can reload the JSON file as a data.frame with the following:

gates <- load.grants("gates.json")