UtilityFunctions: Utility Functions

In Spiritspeak/PAWR: Pushshift API Wrapper for R

Description

Utility Functions

Usage

refreshPAWR(verbose = T)

PSParams(type = c("all", "comment", "submission", "subreddit"))

GetTotalQuerySize(...)

list2df(li)

unevenrbind(...)

now()

Arguments

verbose	Logical. Produce verbose output or not.
type	Character. The type of content that parameters are being looked up for (comment, submission, subreddit). Defaults to all.
...	To-be-merged data frames with an uneven number of columns and/or nonmatching column names
li	List of lists, to be converted to data.frame.

Functions

• refreshPAWR: re-fetches the rate limit and parameter list from pushshift.io

• PSParams: returns all available pushshift.io parameters for a given data type; defaults to all data types.

• GetTotalQuerySize: gives the total amount of content that matches the provided parameters

• list2df: converts a list of lists (pushshift's preferred output format) to a data.frame

• unevenrbind: binds two data.frames together by row, even if their columns do not match

• now: Get the timestamp of the current moment.

Spiritspeak/PAWR documentation built on March 21, 2021, 4:14 p.m.