stack_questions: Query questions from the Stack Exchange API

Description

Query for a list of questions, or information related to a one or more specific questions.

Usage

stack_questions(id = NULL, special = NULL, ...)

Arguments

A vector containing one or more answer IDs

special

One of

c("answers", "comments", "linked", "related",
"timeline")

, describing what information to retrieve about specific questions, or one of c("featured", "no-answers", "unanswered"), describing a filter to place on returned quesitons.

...

Additional arguments to API (see below)

Value

A data.frame of questions.A question object is documented in full here:https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/questionIt comes with the following columns:

accepted_answer_id
answer_count
bounty_amount
bounty_closes_date
closed_date
closed_reason
community_owned_date
creation_date
is_answered
last_activity_date
last_edit_date
link
locked_date
migrated_from
migrated_to
owner
protected_date
question_id
score
tags
title
view_count

Details

API querying methods allow the following additional options:

site: ID of Stack Exchange site (by default, Stack Overflow)
sort: field to sort by
order: whether the sort field should be arranged in descending ("desc") or ascending ("asc") order
min: Minimum value of the sort field
max: Maximum value of the sort field
fromdate: Starting date
todate: Ending date
page: Which page to start from
pagesize: Size of each page to extract (max 100)
num_pages: Number of pages to extract