Scraper class for Federal prison population data

Description

Data pulled from federal pouplation api Brief description of api can be found here http://prisondb.github.io/bopapidocs.html

state

US State not always provided

name

Name of institution

popCount

Current Poulation

groupDescription

Description of group type

sortKey

sortNameKey

sortpzapSequence

indentationIndicator

recordType

Details

The last run of the scraper was on 2021-01-11 and contained the extracted columns: Name, Residents.Population, State, Date, id, source, jurisdiction. We are missing the following core variables for the analysis: Staff.Confirmed, Residents.Confirmed, Staff.Deaths, Residents.Deaths, Staff.Recovered, Residents.Recovered, Staff.Tested, Residents.Tested, Residents.Tadmin, Staff.Negative, Residents.Negative, Staff.Pending, Residents.Pending, Staff.Quarantine, Residents.Quarantine, Residents.Active

Super class

R_GlobalEnv::generic_scraper -> federal_population_scraper

Methods

Public methods

• federal_population_scraper$new()

• federal_population_scraper$clone()

Method new()

Usage

federal_population_scraper$new(
  log,
  url = "https://www.bop.gov/mobile/about/population_statistics.jsp",
  id = "federal_population",
  type = "json",
  state = "federal",
  jurisdiction = "federal",
  pull_func = federal_population_pull,
  restruct_func = federal_population_restruct,
  extract_func = federal_population_extract
)

Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

federal_population_scraper$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments