stackr (version 0.0.0.9000)

stack_tags: Query tags from the Stack Exchange API

Description

Query for tags, either based on names or on other filters.

Usage

stack_tags(name = NULL, special = NULL, ...)

Arguments

name

A vector containing one or more names of tags, or none to query from all tags

special

One of c("faq", "related", "synonyms", "wikis"), to extract information about a particular tag, or one of c("moderator-only", "required", "synonyms"), to request a list of a particular kind of tags, or all synonyms on the site.

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Additional arguments to API (see below)

Value

A data.frame of questions or answers (TODO)

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