stackr (version 0.0.0.9000)

stack_users: Query information about users from the Stack Exchange API

Description

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

Usage

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

Arguments

id
A vector containing one or more user IDs
special
One of many options to describe what information to extract from each user
...
Additional arguments to API (see below)

Value

A data.frame containing each returned userA data.frame of users

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