Package: oldbailey Title: For Accessing the Old Bailey Open Data Version: 1.0.0 Authors@R: person("Steph", "Buongiorno", , "steph.buon@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6965-0787")) Maintainer: Steph Buongiorno Depends: R (>= 3.4.4) Imports: dplyr, httr, jsonlite, stringr, tidyr, rvest URL: https://github.com/rOpenGov/oldbailey BugReports: https://github.com/rOpenGov/oldbailey/issues Description: Fetch trial data from the Old Bailey Online API . Data is returned in an analysis-ready data frame with fields for metadata including (but not limited to) the names of the first person speakers, defendants, victims, their recorded genders, verdicts, punishments, crime locations, and dates. Optional parameters allow users to specify the number of results, whether these results contain key terms, and trial dates. License: MIT + file LICENSE Encoding: UTF-8 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) RoxygenNote: 7.1.2 Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev Repository: https://ropengov.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2025-09-07 23:38:55 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/rOpenGov/oldbailey RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 33c37b7b4ca3911e79a3540688477539ed86e148 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-06-05 10:32:32 UTC; root Author: Steph Buongiorno [aut, cre] (ORCID: )