Package 'eurlex'

Scrape list of court cases from Curia

Description

Harvests data from lists of EU court cases from curia.europa.eu. CELEX identifiers are extracted from hyperlinks where available.

Usage

elx_curia_list(
  data = c("all", "ecj_old", "ecj_new", "gc_all", "cst_all"),
  parse = TRUE
)

Arguments

data	Data to be scraped from four separate lists of cases maintained by Curia, defaults to "all" which contains cases from Court of Justice, General Court and Civil Service Tribunal.
parse	If TRUE, references to cases and appeals are parsed out from case_info into separate columns

Value

A data frame containing case identifiers and information as character columns. Where the case id contains a hyperlink to Eur-Lex, the CELEX identifier is retrieved as well. Hyperlinks to Eur-Lex disappeared from more recent cases.

Examples

elx_curia_list(data = "cst_all", parse = FALSE)

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Download XML notice associated with a URL

Description

Downloads an XML notice of a given type associated with a Cellar resource.

Usage

elx_download_xml(
  url,
  file = paste(basename(url), ".xml", sep = ""),
  notice = c("tree", "branch", "object"),
  language_1 = "en",
  language_2 = "fr",
  language_3 = "de",
  mode = "wb"
)

Arguments

url	A valid url as character vector of length one based on a resource identifier such as CELEX or Cellar URI.
file	A character string with the name where the downloaded file is saved.
notice	The type of notice requested controls what kind of metadata are returned.
language_1	The priority language in which the data will be attempted to be retrieved, in ISO 639 2-char code
language_2	If data not available in language_1, try language_2
language_3	If data not available in language_2, try language_3
mode	A character string specifying the mode with which to write the file. Useful values are "w", "wb" (binary), "a" (append) and "ab".

Details

To retrieve all identifiers associated with a url, use elx_fetch_data(type = "ids").

Value

Path of downloaded file (invisibly) if server validates request (http status code has to be 200). For more information about notices, see Cellar documentation.

Examples

temploc <- paste(tempdir(), "elxnotice.xml", sep = "\\")
elx_download_xml(url = "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32022D0154",
 file = temploc, notice = "object")
unlink(temploc)

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Retrieve additional data on EU documents

Description

Get titles, texts, identifiers and XML notices for EU resources.

Usage

elx_fetch_data(
  url,
  type = c("title", "text", "ids", "notice"),
  notice = c("tree", "branch", "object"),
  language_1 = "en",
  language_2 = "fr",
  language_3 = "de",
  include_breaks = TRUE,
  html_text = c("text2", "text")
)

Arguments

url	A valid url as character vector of length one based on a resource identifier such as CELEX or Cellar URI.
type	The type of data to be retrieved. When type = "text", the returned list contains named elements reflecting the source of each text. When type = "notice", the results return an XML notice associated with the url.
notice	If type = "notice", controls what kind of metadata are returned by the notice.
language_1	The priority language in which the data will be attempted to be retrieved, in ISO 639 2-char code
language_2	If data not available in language_1, try language_2
language_3	If data not available in language_2, try language_3
include_breaks	If TRUE, text includes tags showing where pages ("—pagebreak—", for pdfs) and documents ("—documentbreak—") were concatenated
html_text	Choose whether to read text from html using rvest::html_text2() ("text2") or rvest::html_text() ("text")

Value

A character vector of length one containing the result. When type = "text", named character vector where the name contains the source of the text.

Examples

elx_fetch_data(url = "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32014R0001", type = "title")

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Label EuroVoc concepts

Description

Create a look-up table with labels for EuroVoc concept URIs. Only unique identifiers are returned.

Usage

elx_label_eurovoc(uri_eurovoc = "", alt_labels = FALSE, language = "en")

Arguments

uri_eurovoc	Character vector with valid EuroVoc URIs
alt_labels	If TRUE, results include comma-separated alternative labels in addition to the preferred label
language	Language in which to return the labels, in ISO 639 2-char code

Value

A tibble containing EuroVoc unique concept identifiers and labels.

Examples

elx_label_eurovoc(uri_eurovoc = "http://eurovoc.europa.eu/5760", language = "fr")

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Create SPARQL queries

Description

Generates pre-defined or manual SPARQL queries to retrieve document ids from Cellar. List of available resource types: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/resource-type . Note that not all resource types are compatible with default parameter values.

Usage

elx_make_query(
  resource_type = c("any", "directive", "regulation", "decision", "recommendation",
    "intagr", "caselaw", "manual", "proposal", "national_impl"),
  manual_type = "",
  directory = NULL,
  sector = NULL,
  include_corrigenda = FALSE,
  include_celex = TRUE,
  include_lbs = FALSE,
  include_date = FALSE,
  include_date_force = FALSE,
  include_date_endvalid = FALSE,
  include_date_transpos = FALSE,
  include_date_lodged = FALSE,
  include_force = FALSE,
  include_eurovoc = FALSE,
  include_citations = FALSE,
  include_citations_detailed = FALSE,
  include_author = FALSE,
  include_directory = FALSE,
  include_directory_code = FALSE,
  include_sector = FALSE,
  include_ecli = FALSE,
  include_court_procedure = FALSE,
  include_judge_rapporteur = FALSE,
  include_advocate_general = FALSE,
  include_court_formation = FALSE,
  include_court_scholarship = FALSE,
  include_court_origin = FALSE,
  include_original_language = FALSE,
  include_proposal = FALSE,
  order = FALSE,
  limit = NULL
)

Arguments

resource_type	Type of resource to be retrieved via SPARQL query
manual_type	Define manually the type of resource to be retrieved
directory	Restrict the results to a given directory code
sector	Restrict the results to a given sector code
include_corrigenda	If TRUE, results include corrigenda
include_celex	If TRUE, results include CELEX identifier for each resource URI
include_lbs	If TRUE, results include legal bases of legislation
include_date	If TRUE, results include document date
include_date_force	If TRUE, results include date of entry into force
include_date_endvalid	If TRUE, results include date of end of validity
include_date_transpos	If TRUE, results include date of transposition deadline for directives
include_date_lodged	If TRUE, results include date a court case was lodged with the court
include_force	If TRUE, results include whether legislation is in force
include_eurovoc	If TRUE, results include EuroVoc descriptors of subject matter
include_citations	If TRUE, results include citations (CELEX-labelled)
include_citations_detailed	If TRUE, results include citations (CELEX-labelled) with additional details
include_author	If TRUE, results include document author(s)
include_directory	If TRUE, results include the label of the Eur-Lex directory code
include_directory_code	If TRUE, results include the Eur-Lex directory code
include_sector	If TRUE, results include the Eur-Lex sector code
include_ecli	If TRUE, results include the ECLI identifier for court documents
include_court_procedure	If TRUE, results include type of court procedure and outcome
include_judge_rapporteur	If TRUE, results include the Judge-Rapporteur
include_advocate_general	If TRUE, results include the Advocate General
include_court_formation	If TRUE, results include the court formation
include_court_scholarship	If TRUE, results include court-curated relevant scholarship
include_court_origin	If TRUE, results include country of origin of court case
include_original_language	If TRUE, results include authentic language of document (usually case)
include_proposal	If TRUE, results include the CELEX of the proposal of the adopted legal act
order	Order results by ids
limit	Limit the number of results, for testing purposes mainly

Value

A character string containing the SPARQL query

Examples

elx_make_query(resource_type = "directive", include_date = TRUE, include_force = TRUE)
elx_make_query(resource_type = "regulation", include_corrigenda = TRUE, order = TRUE)
elx_make_query(resource_type = "any", sector = 2)
elx_make_query(resource_type = "manual", manual_type = "SWD")

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Execute SPARQL queries

Description

Executes cURL request to a pre-defined endpoint of the EU Publications Office. Relies on elx_make_query to generate valid SPARQL queries. Results are capped at 1 million rows.

Usage

elx_run_query(
  query = "",
  endpoint = "http://publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql"
)

Arguments

query	A valid SPARQL query specified by elx_make_query() or manually
endpoint	SPARQL endpoint

Value

A data frame containing the results of the SPARQL query. Column work contains the Cellar URI of the resource.

Examples

elx_run_query(elx_make_query("directive", include_force = TRUE, limit = 10))

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