README.md

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Netbase in R

The goal of the netbase package is to make it easy to work with the Netbase API with R.

It was created at TBWA\Chiat\Day.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("acastroaraujo/netbase")

Set up

library(netbase)

If you try to use any function without authenticating first you’ll receive an error message.

nb_hello_world("Spanish")
#> Error: Use nb_setup() to authenticate yourself!

Type in your user and password:

nb_setup(user = ####, password = #####)

Once this is done an invisible variable called .auth will get saved to your global environment.

nb_hello_world("Spanish")
#> $language
#> [1] "Spanish"
#> 
#> $message
#> [1] "¡Hola, mundo!"

Example

mv <- nb_metric_values(topic_id = 1384327, time = "Day")

You can then visualize the data with tools like ggplot2

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(mv, aes(date, TotalBuzz)) + geom_line()

ic <- nb_insights_count(topic_id = 1384327, categories = c("Domains", "Likes"), size = 10)
#> You have exceeded your query rate limit.
#> Waiting for 80 seconds...

ggplot(ic$Domains, aes(count, reorder(insight, count))) + geom_col()

ggplot(ic$Likes, aes(count, reorder(insight, count))) + geom_col()

These are the main functions in this package:

• nb_list_themes()

• nb_theme_definitions()

• nb_list_topics()

• nb_topic_definitions()

• nb_insights_count()

• nb_metric_values()

acastroaraujo/netbase documentation built on July 5, 2020, 3:17 p.m.