THL Open API R package

Installation

Install the current devel version in R:

devtools::install_github("ropengov/openthl")

Test the installation by loading the library:

library(openthl)

We also recommend setting the UTF-8 encoding:

Sys.setlocale(locale="UTF-8") 

Examples

library(openthl)

x <- thlSubject("epirapo") # S3 class "thlSubject" 
datasets <- thlDatasets(x) # S3 class "thlDatasets"

Licensing and Citations

This work can be freely used, modified and distributed under the open license specified in the DESCRIPTION file.

Kindly cite the work as follows

citation("openthl")

## Kindly cite the hetu R package as follows:
## 
##   (C) Tuomo Nieminen, Leo Lahti (2020).  R package for THL Open API
##   (openthl).  URL: http://github.com/rOpenGov/openthl
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Misc{,
##     title = {R package for THL Open API (openthl)},
##     author = {Tuomo Nieminen and Leo Lahti},
##     year = {2020},
##   }
## 
## Many thanks for all contributors!

Session info

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sessionInfo()

## R version 4.6.0 (2026-04-24)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
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## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
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## other attached packages:
## [1] openthl_0.1.1  rmarkdown_2.31
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