In DomBennett/om..wikit: Outsider module for running wikit

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "README-"
)

Run `wikit` with `outsider` in R

Search and look up summaries of Wikipedia articles.

This outsider module was developed to demonstrate how any kind of program can be wrapped into a module.

Easy to install

library(outsider)
module_install(repo = "dombennett/om..wikit")
#module_help(repo = "dombennett/om..wikit")

Look up Wikipedia summaries from within R

library(outsider)
wikit <- module_import(fname = 'wikit', repo = 'dombennett/om..wikit')
# see all examples
dinosaur_summary <- wikit('dinosaur', ncols = 80)
cat(dinosaur_summary)

module_uninstall(repo='dombennett/om..wikit')

Key arguments

Note: the wikit function only has three arguments (topic, lang and ncol). Other flags described in the command-line wikit program are not avaialble.

topic: What's the topic? E.g. "rabbit" or "KitKats in Japan"
lang: Which Wikipedia language version? Default English.
ncol: Column width of the returned text summary

Links

Learn more by visiting Wikit's homepage

If citing ....

Kory Schneider (2020) Wikit: Wikipedia summaries from the command line.
Bennett et al. (2020). outsider: Install and run programs, outside of R, inside of R. Journal of Open Source Software, In review