finlex: Access Open Data from the Finnish 'Finlex' Legislative Database

Provides functions to retrieve and structure Finnish legislative data made available through the 'Finlex' Open Data API (<https://www.finlex.fi/en/open-data>). Functions cover retrieval of statute catalogues, statute titles, structured statute metadata, and cross-references between amending and amended statutes, returned as tidy tibbles for further analysis.

Version:	0.2.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	dplyr, httr2, tibble, xml2
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), pkgdown
Published:	2026-07-23
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.finlex
Author:	Kristian Vepsäläinen [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Kristian Vepsäläinen <kristian.vepsalainen at proton.me>
BugReports:	https://github.com/KristianVepsalainen/finlex/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/KristianVepsalainen/finlex, http://kristianvepsalainen.com/finlex/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Citation:	finlex citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	finlex results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	finlex.html , finlex.pdf
Vignettes:	Getting started with finlex (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	finlex_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: finlex_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): finlex_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): finlex_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): finlex_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): finlex_0.2.0.tgz
Old sources:	finlex archive

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