Arilene Novak

API made simple: automating data access in R

Lighting Talk, 3:00 - 3:35 PM

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are useful tools for automating data retrieval and integrating external datasets into R workflows. This lightning talk will demonstrate how to use APIs to access data.

Key topics:

  • Secure authentication using the httr and keyring packages
  • Retrieving data through GET and POST requests and troubleshooting common API errors *Parsing JSON and other response formats using jsonlite and readr

By highlighting challenges such as credential management, error handling, and data transformation, this talk will give attendees actionable techniques they can immediately incorporate into their own R projects.



Arilene Novak
Pronouns: she/her
Albany, OR, USA
Arilene Novak is a respiratory viral epidemiologist at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), where she focuses on improving and streamlining surveillance and reporting practices. Based in Albany, Arilene enjoys hiking, gardening, and reading in her free time, often alongside her husband, corgi, and two cats.