Assignment 6 - Spent a few hours trying to transform the data frame, but couldn’t get it to work. Right now it’s way too wide(430 columns) for it to be useful.

response <- GET("https://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v3/lists.json?list=hardcover-fiction&api-key=Mf6q45GOp16AVREtOZMcsnFIO0jcUHcm")

data = fromJSON(rawToChar(response$content))

content <- response$content

char <- rawToChar(content)

books_text <- fromJSON(char)

lists <- books_text$results

list_df <- as.data.frame(lists)

list_df
##           list_name      display_name bestsellers_date published_date rank
## 1 Hardcover Fiction Hardcover Fiction       2022-10-22     2022-11-06    1
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## 1              0             1        0      0
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## 1 9780385548922     0385548931  9780385548939 THE BOYS FROM BILOXI
##                                                                                  book_details.description
## 1 Two childhood friends follow in their fathers’ footsteps, which puts them on opposite sides of the law.
##   book_details.contributor book_details.author book_details.contributor_note
## 1          by John Grisham        John Grisham                              
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## 1  9780063251922     006325199X  9780063251991     DEMON COPPERHEAD
##                                                                            book_details.description.1
## 1 A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
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##                                                                            book_details.description.2
## 1 A high school kid inherits a shed that is a portal to another world where good and evil are at war.
##   book_details.contributor.2 book_details.author.2
## 1            by Stephen King          Stephen King
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## 1   9781538719817      1538719797   9781538719794         LONG SHADOWS
##                                                                                     book_details.description.3
## 1 The seventh book in the Memory Man series. Decker works with a new partner to investigate a double homicide.
##   book_details.contributor.3 book_details.author.3
## 1          by David Baldacci        David Baldacci
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##   book_details.title.4
## 1            DREAMLAND
##                                                                                                  book_details.description.4
## 1 Musicians from different backgrounds are attracted to each other and a mother flees with her son from an abusive husband.
##   book_details.contributor.4 book_details.author.4
## 1         by Nicholas Sparks       Nicholas Sparks
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##                                                                book_details.description.5
## 1 After returning to her hometown, Olivia McAfee’s son gets accused of killing his crush.
##                   book_details.contributor.5
## 1 by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
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## 1   9781501101786      1501101803   9781501101809             THE MAZE
##                                                                                                                       book_details.description.6
## 1 The eighth book in the John Corey series. When a former lover offers him a job, Corey comes out of forced retirement to track a serial killer.
##   book_details.contributor.6 book_details.author.6
## 1          by Nelson DeMille        Nelson DeMille
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## 1               VERITY
##                                                                                                    book_details.description.7
## 1 Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth.
##   book_details.contributor.7 book_details.author.7
## 1          by Colleen Hoover        Colleen Hoover
##   book_details.contributor_note.7 book_details.price.7 book_details.age_group.7
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##   reviews.first_chapter_link.7 reviews.sunday_review_link.7
## 1                                                          
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##                                                                                                      book_details.description.8
## 1 Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner goes on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese American poet whose work he was taught to disavow.
##   book_details.contributor.8 book_details.author.8
## 1              by Celeste Ng            Celeste Ng
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##   reviews.first_chapter_link.8 reviews.sunday_review_link.8
## 1                                                          
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## 1         2022-10-22       2022-11-06     10                0               1
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##                                                                                    book_details.description.9
## 1 A collection of nine short stories by the author of “Lincoln in the Bardo,” which won the Man Booker Prize.
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## 1         by George Saunders       George Saunders
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## 1   9781501189272    THE LAST CHAIRLIFT
##                                                                                              book_details.description.10
## 1 The son of a competitive slalom skier returns to the hotel in Aspen where he was conceived and encounters some ghosts.
##   book_details.contributor.10 book_details.author.10
## 1              by John Irving            John Irving
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## 1                                    Simon & Schuster
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##   reviews.sunday_review_link.10 reviews.article_chapter_link.10
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##                                                         book_details.description.11
## 1 A pastor and a bartender discover love when they switch jobs during the holidays.
##   book_details.contributor.11 book_details.author.11
## 1          by Debbie Macomber        Debbie Macomber
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##                                                                                   book_details.description.12
## 1 The 32nd book in the Prey series. Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport go after a group of vigilante killers.
##   book_details.contributor.12 book_details.author.12
## 1            by John Sandford          John Sandford
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## 1   9780385547345      0593507533   9780593507537  LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
##                                                                            book_details.description.13
## 1 A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
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## 1            by Bonnie Garmus          Bonnie Garmus
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## 1                                                              
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## 1   9781982112790      1982112816   9781982112813           THE WINNERS
##                                                                                              book_details.description.14
## 1 The third book in the Beartown series. Rivalries between two hockey-obsessed towns escalate into violence off the ice.
##   book_details.contributor.14 book_details.author.14
## 1          by Fredrik Backman        Fredrik Backman
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