wiki_define: Define a term from Wikipedia

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/wiki_define.R

Description

'wiki_define()' displays plaintext extract(s) of the given term(s) from ' the Wikipedia article(s).

Usage

1
wiki_define(term = NULL, sentences = 5L)

Arguments

term

A non-empty character string or vector giving the name(s) of the term to be searched

sentences

An integer (or whole number) giving the number of sentences to return

Value

An extract from the Wikipedia article

Examples

1
2
3
4
5
wiki_define('R (programming language)')

animals <- data.frame(name = c("dog", "cat"))
animals$definition <- wiki_define(animals$name, sentences = 1)
print(animals)

wikifacts documentation built on April 29, 2021, 5:06 p.m.