The goal of finna is to retrieve data from Finna API
The devel version of finna can be installed from GitHub as follows:
# Install finna if not already installed
if (!requireNamespace("finna", quietly = TRUE)) {
remotes::install_github("rOpenGov/finna")
}remotes::install_github("rOpenGov/finna")The basic functionality of finna can be explored as follows:
# Load the package
library(finna)
# Perform a simple search and print a table
record <- search_finna("sibelius")
head(record)| Title | Author | Year | Language | Formats | Subjects | Library | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sibelius favourites: Sibelius collection | Sibelius | 2001 | N/A | Äänite (audio) | Orkesterimusiikki | Lapin | N/A |
| SIBELIUS | TAWASTSTJERNA | 1997 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | SIBELIUS | Anders Chydenius | N/A |
| Sibelius | TAWASTSTJERNA | 1997 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | Sibelius | Anders Chydenius | N/A |
| Sibelius | Lampila | 1984 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | Sibelius | Helka-arkisto | N/A |
| Sibelius | TAWASTSTJERNA | 2003 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | Sibelius | Kansalliskirjasto | N/A |
| Sibelius | Ringbom | 1948 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | Sibelius | Kirkes | N/A |
To search all related in descending order
record <- search_finna("sibelius", sort = "main_date_str des")
head(record)| Title | Author | Year | Language | Formats | Subjects | Library | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| He selvisivät sodasta | Kirves, Jenni, Werner Söderström | 2024 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | Sotilaat | Anders Chydenius | N/A |
| Yli-ihmisiä ja traagisia kuolevaisia: esseitä ja kirjoituksia 1901-1945 | Frosterus, Sigurd, Sarje Maaria | 2024 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | Wagner, etc. | Helka-arkisto | N/A |
| Eero Järnefelt | Järnefelt, Eero, Selkokari | 2024 | Finnish | Kirja (book) | Järnefelt | Anders Chydenius | Ateneum |
| Eero Järnefelt | Järnefelt, Eero, Selkokari | 2024 | Swedish | Kirja (book) | Järnefelt | Helle-kirjastot | Ateneum |
| Eero Järnefelt | Järnefelt, Eero, Selkokari | 2024 | English | Kirja (book) | Järnefelt | Helmet-kirjasto | Ateneum |
| Solace | N/A | 2024 | No language (zxx) | Äänite (audio) | N/A | Anders Chydenius | N/A |
Please note that the finna project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms. Contributions are welcome in the form of feedback, issues and pull requests. You can find the contributor guidelines of the finna here.
Please note that finna was only made possible thanks to many other R and rOpenGov software authors, which are cited in the vignettes describing this package.
This package was developed using the following resources:
- usethis to generate an initial template.
- Continuous code testing is performed on GitHub actions and include R CMD check,
- Code coverage assessment is possible thanks to codecov.
- The documentation website is automatically updated thanks to pkgdown.
- The documentation is formatted thanks to devtools and roxygen2.
This package is in no way officially related to or endorsed by Finna.
When using data retrieved from Finna database in your work, please indicate that the data source is Finna. If your re-use involves some kind of modification to data or text, please state this clearly to the end user. See Finna policy on copyright and free re-use of data for more detailed information and certain exceptions.