JSON file in R is stored as an R list. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. The JSON file is consists of the data as text in a human-readable format.
Install rjson Package
You can install the R JSON package with the following command in the R console.
Input Data
Create a JSON file by copying the below data into a text editor like notepad. Save the file with a .json extension and choosing the file type as all files(*.*).
Read the JSON File
Reading a JSON file in R is quite a simple task. The JSON file in R is read using the fromJSON() function from rjson(). It is stored as an R list.
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Writing into a JSON file
One need to create a JSON Object using toJSON() function before he writes the data to a JSON file.
Before creating a JSON file we need to create a JSON object using toJSON() function. To write data into a JSON file the write() function is used in R.
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Convert JSON to a Data Frame
We can convert the extracted data to an R data frame using the as.data.frame() function.