README.md

In tyluRp/brewr: R interface to Homebrews JSON API

brewr

The goal of brewr is to access Homebrews JSON API in R.

Installation

You can install brewr from github using devtools with:

devtools::install_github("tylurp/brewr")

Example

Use the brewr() function to access all API endpoints. The endpoints can be found here.

The first argument of brewr() is the endpoint. Note that the leading slash must be included as well.

library(brewr)
library(dplyr)
library(jsonlite)

# Pull metrics on macOS versions
os_versions <- brewr("/analytics/os-version/30d")

# Default output is JSON
class(os_versions)
#> [1] "json"

# Convert JSON to an R object with jsonlite
os_versions %>% 
  fromJSON() %>% 
  .$items
#>    number                   os_version      count percent
#> 1       1         macOS Mojave (10.14) 11,193,335   68.36
#> 2       2    macOS High Sierra (10.13)  3,720,380   22.72
#> 3       3         macOS Sierra (10.12)    949,361    5.80
#> 4       4      OS X El Capitan (10.11)    400,024    2.44
#> 5       5        OS X Yosemite (10.10)     90,737    0.55
#> 6       6        OS X Mavericks (10.9)     17,137    0.10
#> 7       7                macOS (10.15)      1,715    0.01
#> 8       8 Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)        392    0.00
#> 9       9    OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)        373    0.00
#> 10     10         Mac OS X Lion (10.7)        368    0.00

# Pull install metrics from the last 30 days
brewr("/analytics/install/30d") %>% 
  fromJSON() %>% 
  .$items %>% 
  head(10)
#>    number  formula   count percent
#> 1       1 readline 502,756    3.06
#> 2       2  openssl 495,728    3.02
#> 3       3   python 478,566    2.91
#> 4       4   sqlite 478,056    2.91
#> 5       5     node 347,418    2.12
#> 6       6    icu4c 296,464    1.81
#> 7       7     gdbm 289,269    1.76
#> 8       8       xz 234,537    1.43
#> 9       9   libpng 219,181    1.34
#> 10     10     glib 196,391    1.20

# Pull cask installs from the last 30d
brewr("/analytics/cask-install/30d") %>% 
  fromJSON() %>% 
  .$items %>% 
  head(10)
#>    number                   cask  count percent
#> 1       1                   java 29,268    4.59
#> 2       2                  java8 26,509    4.16
#> 3       3                 docker 17,088    2.68
#> 4       4                 iterm2 16,094    2.52
#> 5       5               minikube 15,703    2.46
#> 6       6             virtualbox 14,458    2.27
#> 7       7                xquartz 12,755    2.00
#> 8       8 android-platform-tools 11,763    1.84
#> 9       9          google-chrome 11,245    1.76
#> 10     10     visual-studio-code 11,060    1.73

Shiny demo

See the shiny demo app here: https://github.com/tyluRp/brewr-shiny

tyluRp/brewr documentation built on May 15, 2019, 9:56 p.m.