doj_press_releases function

Fetch U.S. DOJ Press Releases

For accessing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) open data press releases.

doj_press_releases(
    n_results = 50,
    search_direction = "DESC",
    keyword = NULL,
    clean = TRUE
  )

Arguments

• n_results: The number of results to return. By default, 50 results are returned.
• search_direction: Set to ASC or DESC to fetch data starting from the most or least recent entries. By default, data is sorted in descending order (the most recent entries).
• keyword: Only return results containing a keyword. Keyword can be a single word, a list or words, or a regex separated by the pipe delimiter
• clean: Set to FALSE to return data without additional cleaning. By default HTML tags, white space, line breaks, and other messy characters are removed. Epoch time is converted to year-month-day format.

Returns

Dataframe containing API pull of U.S. DOJ press releases.

Examples

# Return a dataframe with 50 of the latest records. Data is cleaned.
  latest_records <- doj_press_releases()
  head(latest_records)

  # Return a dataframe with 15 of the earliest records. Data is not cleaned.
  earliest_records <- doj_press_releases(n_results = 15, search_direction = "ASC")
  head(earliest_records)