Choose one of the New York Times APIs, construct an interface in R to read in the JSON data, and transform it to an R dataframe.

The following code accesses the New York Times Book Reviews for the author Lee Child, and stores them in a dataframe in R.

library(jsonlite)
## Warning: package 'jsonlite' was built under R version 3.2.2
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## Attaching package: 'jsonlite'
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## The following object is masked from 'package:utils':
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nyt_book_key <- "&api-key=15c2827997f9e1400c5cc5cd88af8111:7:73337648" ## store the api key so the API can be accessed
url <- "http://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v3/reviews.json?author=Lee%20Child" ## web address to access using author name 
book_review_request <- fromJSON(paste0(url, nyt_book_key))  ## make the request, submit the API key and bring info into r
lee_child_nyt_book_reviews <- book_review_request$results  ## store the results, culling extraneous info

head(lee_child_nyt_book_reviews, 2) ## View the first 2 rows of the data frame
##                                                                                            url
## 1  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/books/a-wanted-man-a-jack-reacher-novel-by-lee-child.html
## 2 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/books/never-go-back-a-jack-reacher-novel-by-lee-child.html
##   publication_dt       byline    book_title book_author
## 1     2012-09-10 JANET MASLIN    Wanted Man   Lee Child
## 2     2013-08-30 JANET MASLIN Never Go Back   Lee Child
##                                                                                                                                        summary
## 1 <U+0093>A Wanted Man<U+0094> is Lee Child<U+0092>s 17th Jack Reacher novel and the last to be published before Reacher goes Hollywood with a big Christmas movie.
## 2                 Jack Reacher returns in Lee Child<U+0092>s <U+0093>Never Go Back<U+0094> for a cross-country pursuit full of surprises and a possible love child.
##                                                                                                                   isbn13
## 1 9780307749581, 9780307749604, 9780307990853, 9780385344333, 9780440246312, 9780440339366, 9780804148924, 9781409043560
## 2                                                                                                          9780440246329
lee_child_nyt_book_reviews[c("book_title", "summary")] ## View 2 columns of interest from the data frame
##                         book_title
## 1                       Wanted Man
## 2                    Never Go Back
## 3                       The Affair
## 4                         61 Hours
## 5                  Nothing to Lose
## 6             Bad Luck and Trouble
## 7                     The Hard Way
## 8                    Running Blind
## 9  The Enemy (Jack Reacher, No. 8)
## 10  One Shot (Jack Reacher, No. 9)
##                                                                                                                                         summary
## 1  <U+0093>A Wanted Man<U+0094> is Lee Child<U+0092>s 17th Jack Reacher novel and the last to be published before Reacher goes Hollywood with a big Christmas movie.
## 2                  Jack Reacher returns in Lee Child<U+0092>s <U+0093>Never Go Back<U+0094> for a cross-country pursuit full of surprises and a possible love child.
## 3                                                  In <U+0093>The Affair,<U+0094> the 16th book in the Reacher series, Lee Child gives his hero a back story.
## 4                                 Lee Child<U+0092>s tough, cerebral hero Jack Reacher returns in a thriller that finds him snowbound in South Dakota.
## 5                           Leaves turn. Snow falls. Robins tweet. And a new Jack Reacher novel arrives as the year<U+0092>s first red-hot beach book.
## 6                <U+0093>Bad Luck and Trouble<U+0094> unfolds with the simple, immaculate logic that makes Lee Child<U+0092>s Jack Reacher series utterly addictive.
## 7                                                                    Big, smart, occasionally wrong, Jack Reacher returns for a 10th adventure.
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