Client for the 'Close' API

Access travel times from every US census block to nearby points of interest, by walking, biking, and public transit, over the 'Close' API. Wraps the metered, read-only public endpoints with keyset pagination, ETag/304 conditional requests, token accounting, typed RFC 9457 error handling, and tabular output by default ('sf' where geometry applies, a data frame otherwise).

closecity

This is the R software development kit for the Close.City API. It returns travel times from every US census block to nearby places, on foot, by bike, and by public transit. The data behind close.city is served over the Close API.

Install

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("henryspatialanalysis/closecity-r")

Documentation

New to the package? Start with the guide, then work through a tutorial.

• Get started: key terms, building a client, making a call and mapping it, output modes, and error handling.
• Tutorials
  • Your first walkability map
  • Looking for a home
  • The amenity basket
  • Competitor walksheds
  • Efficient token use
• Function reference: every client method and helper.

Reference

• API docs and guides: https://docs.close.city
• Interactive API: https://api.close.city/docs
• Machine-readable contract: https://api.close.city/openapi.json