Convert fromJSON list to a data frame

Question

I am getting data from BLS website using the package blsAPI .

The code is:

library(blsAPI)
employ <- blsAPI(payload= "CES0500000001")
emp <- fromJSON(employ)

The data set emp is a list ... this is where I am stumped. I've been trying all types of variations to convert emp to data.frame from list with no success.

Answer 1

Just set the argument return_data_frame = TRUE of blsAPI function. data.frame will be returned instead of list (default behaviour).

library(rjson)
library(blsAPI)
response <- blsAPI("CES0500000001", return_data_frame = TRUE)
head(response)

Output:

  year period periodName  value      seriesID
1 2018    M08     August 126939 CES0500000001
2 2018    M07       July 126735 CES0500000001
3 2018    M06       June 126582 CES0500000001
4 2018    M05        May 126390 CES0500000001
5 2018    M04      April 126130 CES0500000001
6 2018    M03      March 125956 CES0500000001