README

nycOpenData

nycOpenData provides simple, reproducible access to datasets from the
NYC Open Data platform — directly from R,
with no API keys or manual downloads required.

Version 0.1.2 now includes wrappers for 15+ NYC Open Data APIs, covering:

311 Service Requests

For-Hire Vehicles (FHV)

Juvenile Justice (rearrest rates + caseloads)

School Discharge Reporting

Violent & Disruptive School Incidents

Detention Admissions

Borough/Community District Reports

Street Tree Census

Urban Park Ranger Animal Condition Responses

Permitted Events (Historical)

and more

All functions return clean tibble outputs and support filtering via
filters = list(field = "value").

Installation

From CRAN (once published)

install.packages("nycOpenData")

Development version (GitHub)

devtools::install_github("martinezc1/nycOpenData")

Example

library(nycOpenData)

# Get 5,000 most recent 311 requests
data <- nyc_311(limit = 5000)

# Filter by agency and city
filtered <- nyc_311(
  limit = 2000,
  filters = list(agency = "NYPD", city = "BROOKLYN")
)

head(filtered)

## # A tibble: 6 × 35 ## unique_key created_date agency agency_name complaint_type descriptor ## <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> ## 1 66797209 2025-11-12T02:04:55.0… NYPD New York C… Illegal Parki… Parking P… ## 2 66801994 2025-11-12T02:04:00.0… NYPD New York C… Noise - Resid… Loud Musi… ## 3 66801997 2025-11-12T02:02:18.0… NYPD New York C… Noise - Resid… Loud Talk… ## 4 66801875 2025-11-12T02:01:32.0… NYPD New York C… Blocked Drive… No Access ## 5 66805223 2025-11-12T02:00:04.0… NYPD New York C… Noise - Resid… Loud Musi… ## 6 66803537 2025-11-12T01:59:25.0… NYPD New York C… Illegal Parki… Blocked H… ## # ℹ 29 more variables: location_type <chr>, incident_zip <chr>, ## # incident_address <chr>, street_name <chr>, cross_street_1 <chr>, ## # cross_street_2 <chr>, intersection_street_1 <chr>, ## # intersection_street_2 <chr>, address_type <chr>, city <chr>, ## # landmark <chr>, status <chr>, community_board <chr>, bbl <chr>, ## # borough <chr>, x_coordinate_state_plane <chr>, ## # y_coordinate_state_plane <chr>, open_data_channel_type <chr>, …

About

nycOpenData makes New York City’s civic datasets accessible to students,
educators, analysts, and researchers through a unified and user-friendly R interface.
Developed to support reproducible research, open-data literacy, and real-world analysis.

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