stack_answers: Query answers from the Stack Exchange API

Description

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

Usage

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

Arguments

A vector containing one or more answer IDs, or none to query all answers

special

If "comments", return the comments on the answers rather than the answers themselves

...

Additional arguments to API (see below)

Value

A data.frame of answers.An answer object is documented in full here:https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/answerIt comes with the following columns:

answer_id
community_owned_date
creation_date
is_accepted
last_activity_date
last_edit_date
locked_date
owner
protected_date
question_id
score

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