mySOreputation: Parse Your Reputation Page From Any of the Stack Exchange...

In mrdwab/SOfun: Functions From Answers to R Questions on Stack Overflow

Description

It is very easy to view a detailed account of your reputation at any of the Stack Exchange sites by visiting http://"sitename"/reputation (obviously substituting "sitename" for the actual site of interest, for example, http://stackoverflow.com/reputation). However, that format is not very user-friendly if you want to do any analysis with it. This function parses that page into an R data.frame.

Usage

mySOreputation(rep_file)

Arguments

rep_file

The path to a text version of your reputation page. Windows and Linux users can copy the text on the page with select all + copy, and simply use "clipboard" instead of saving the contents to a local file.

Author(s)

Paul Hiemstra provided the base parser. Built upon by Ananda Mahto.

References

Values for the "actions" variable determined after visiting http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43005/214964. There is one value not mentioned at that page, coded as action_id == 99 and action == Bonus that corresponds to the bonus that a user gets when they have above a certain reputation and are active on multiple Stack Exchange sites.

Examples

## This is a real reputation file,
##    but the "question_id" variable is
##    made up.
rep_file <- system.file("soreputation.txt", package = "SOfun")
readLines(rep_file, 15)
mydf <- mySOreputation(rep_file = rep_file)
head(mydf, 15)
str(mydf)
plot(mydf$date, cumsum(mydf$rep_change))

## Not run: 
library(xts)
mydfx <- xts(mydf$rep_change, mydf$date)
apply.monthly(mydfx, sum)
plot(apply.monthly(mydfx, sum))

## End(Not run)

mrdwab/SOfun documentation built on June 20, 2020, 6:15 p.m.