This is a Renku project - basically a git repository with some
bells and whistles. You'll find we have already created some
useful things like `data` and `notebooks` directories and
a `Dockerfile`.
This repository aims to simplify the access to the [Swiss Federal Statistical Office](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home.html) metadata.
Following the implementation in the [interoperability platform](https://www.i14y.admin.ch) and the [SIS portal](https://sharepoint.admin.ch/edi/bfs/fr-ch/News/Pages/go-life-neues-sis-portals.aspx), the APIs are made available here in R.
This public library is made available for the internal FSO staff, the federal administration and for external actors.
## Working with the project
## Installation
The simplest way to start your project is right from the Renku
platform - just click on the `Environments` tab and start a new session.
This will start an interactive environment right in your browser.
You can install the library with
To work with the project anywhere outside the Renku platform,
click the `Settings` tab where you will find the
git repo URLs - use `git` to clone the project on whichever machine you want.
### Changing interactive environment dependencies
## Functionnalities
Based on the metadata that you want, you will call certain functions and parameters.
In the first part, we describe the API available from everywhere, then we describe the API available only from within the confederation network.
Initially we install a very minimal set of packages to keep the images small.
However, you can add python and conda packages in `requirements.txt` and
`environment.yml`, and R packages to `install.R` (listed as, for example,
`install.packages("ggplot2")`), to your heart's content. If you need more fine-grained
control over your environment, please see [the documentation](https://renku.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced_interfaces.html#dockerfile-modifications).
### Available everywhere with the interoperability plateform (i14y)