R Client for the MTurk Requester API

MTurkR provides programmatic access to the crowdsourcing functionality of the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) Requester API.

Possible applications of the package include:

• Survey or experimental research using MTurk workers as human subjects
• Large-scale human coding or categorization of text, images, video, audio, or other files
• Collection of unstructured data from the web
• Audio and video transcription
• Preprocessing of "messy" data prior to statistical procedures

Installation

To install the latest development version of MTurkR from GitHub:

if(!require("devtools")){
    install.packages("devtools")
    library("devtools")
}
install_github("leeper/MTurkR")

The GitHub master branch should be considered stable, while the develop branch reflects current code that is a work in progress. Major releases are periodically pushed to CRAN. To install the latest version from CRAN, simply use:

install.packages("MTurkR")

Using MTurkR

The MTurkR documentation files contain minimal examples for all functions. Further examples of how to use MTurkR are provided in the MTurkR GitHub wiki. Users can contribute their own examples or further documentation there, or via pull requests to the GitHub repository.

If you experience problems using MTurkR, you can:

• Report issues on Github
• Check the status of the MTurk Requester API on the AWS Service Health Dashboard
• Contact the package maintainer via email or on Twitter