wp_trend: Function for getting access statistics for wikipedia pages

In johndharrison/wikipediatrend: Public subject attention via Wikipedia page access statistics.

Description

Function for getting access statistics for wikipedia pages

Usage

wp_trend(page = "Peter_principle", from = Sys.Date() - 30,
  to = Sys.Date(), lang = "en", friendly = F, requestFrom = "anonymous")

Arguments

page	The name of the Wikipedia page as to be found in the URL to the wikipedia article. If e.g. the URL is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fox_(musician), than the page name equals to Peter_Fox_(musician).
from	The starting date of the timespan for which access statistics should be retrieved - note that there is no data prior to 2007-12-01. Supply some sort of timestamp e.g. of class POSIXlt, POSIXct, Date, or character. If the option is of type character it should be in the form of yyyy-mm-dd.
to	The last date for which access statistics should be retrieved. Supply some sort of timestamp e.g. of class POSIXlt, POSIXct, Date, or character. If the option is of type character it should be in the form of yyyy-mm-dd.
lang	The language shorthand identifying which Wikipedia access statistics are to be used: e.g. "en" for the English version found at http://en.wikipedia.org, "de" for the German version found at http://de.wikipedia.org or perhaps "als" for the Alemannic dialect found under http://als.wikipedia.org/.
friendly	Either TRUE, FALSE, 1 or 2 This option causes twofold. First, if the value is set to TRUE, 1, or 2 the results of the request are saved in the current working directory in a CSV file with name scheme: wp__[page name]_[country code].csv. Second, the function will look if perhaps a previously saved result is available to be used to only download those information that are still missing instead of the whole timespan. For storage on disk write.csv() (friendly=TRUE or friendly=1) and write.csv2() (friendly=2) are used.
requestFrom	This parameter sends an identifier (i.e. your email address to contact you if necessary) to stats.grok.se (the server that kindly provides the information you request).

Examples

wp_trend(page="Main_Page",
         from="2014-11-01",
         to="2014-11-30",
         lang="en",
         friendly=FALSE,
         requestFrom="R package wikipedia trend test request")

johndharrison/wikipediatrend documentation built on May 19, 2019, 5:14 p.m.