WikipediR

An R API wrapper for MediaWiki, optimised for the Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki instances, such as Wikipedia.

Author: Os Keyes License: MIT Status: Stable

Description

WikipediR is a wrapper around the MediaWiki API, optimised for the Wikimedia Foundation's production sites, such as Wikipedia. It is written in and for R, a statistical environment and associated programming language in heavy use by HCI researchers that, somehow, escaped having an API wrapper until now.

Installation

For the most recent version, on CRAN:

install.packages("WikipediR")

For the development version:

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("ironholds/WikipediR")

Limitations

WikipediR currently lacks:

• Quite a few possible API calls;
• Direct authentication, through MediaWiki or OAuth.

These issues will be solved in time; if there is a particular feature you want, open an issue here on github: I can't prioritise if I don't know what people are trying to do :).

Dependencies

• R. Doy.
• httr and its dependencies.