Downloading JSON Data from a URL

[ficroce]

Hi there,

I am relatively new to using R . I am trying to run the below code to download JSON Data from the url:

install.packages('tidyverse')
library(tidyverse)

weather_url <- 'https://api.weather.gov/stations/KBHB/observations/latest'

res <- tryCatch({
  fromJSON(weather_url)
}, error = function(e) {
  stop('failed to fetch json from url')
})
    

It allows me to run the weather URL, but when I try to run the tryCatch function, it gives the below error:

Error in value[[3L]](cond) : failed to fetch json from url

I am also receiving this message when running the tidyverse library:

── Attaching core tidyverse packages ──────────────────────────── tidyverse 2.0.0 ──
✔ dplyr     1.1.0     ✔ readr     2.1.4
✔ forcats   1.0.0     ✔ stringr   1.5.0
✔ ggplot2   3.4.1     ✔ tibble    3.1.8
✔ lubridate 1.9.2     ✔ tidyr     1.3.0
✔ purrr     1.0.1     
── Conflicts ────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
✖ dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
✖ dplyr::lag()    masks stats::lag()
ℹ Use the conflicted package to force all conflicts to become errors
Warning message:
package ‘tidyverse’ was built under R version 4.2.3 

I'm unsure if the problems with tidyverse package are causing the problems with downloading the data from the URL,

Could someone advise me on what to do?

[nirgrahamuk]

@ficroce

fromJSON(weather_url)

should be

  fromJSON(url(weather_url))