Package: africalaws Type: Package Title: Interface to the Laws.Africa API Version: 0.0.0.9000 Authors@R: c( person("Jillian Francise", "Lee", role = c("aut", "cph")), person("Ernest", "Guevarra", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4887-4415"), email = "ernest@guevarra.io", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph")), person("Sanjeev", "Pugazhendhi", role = "ths"), person("Proochista", "Ariana", role = c("ths", "cph"))) Description: Laws.Africa endeavours to facilitate African governments in offering sustainable, free access to dependable digital laws. It aims to achieve this by ensuring that the laws are easily accessible, user-friendly, educational, and reusable. This initiative seeks to empower citizens with knowledge of their legal rights and obligations while promoting transparency and accountability within the legal system. Laws.Africa offers a content application programming interface (API) to fetch legislative content and metadata. The API is a read-only API for listing and fetching published versions of legislative works. This package interfaces with this API to allow access using R. License: GPL (>= 3) Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Encoding: UTF-8 Imports: askpass, dplyr, httr2, rlang, tibble Suggests: jsonlite RoxygenNote: 7.3.2 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) URL: https://github.com/OxfordIHTM/africalaws, http://oxford-ihtm.io/africalaws/ BugReports: https://github.com/OxfordIHTM/africalaws/issues Config/pak/sysreqs: libssl-dev Repository: https://oxfordihtm.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2025-08-13 06:10:35 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/OxfordIHTM/africalaws RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: a10d312e237bf9a65cb458e18125c6832a0fe057 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-06-17 09:17:36 UTC; root Author: Jillian Francise Lee [aut, cph], Ernest Guevarra [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: ), Sanjeev Pugazhendhi [ths], Proochista Ariana [ths, cph] Maintainer: Ernest Guevarra