In tyluRp/hackr: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%"
)

hackr

The goal of hackr is to wrap the Hacker News API in R.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("tylurp/hackr")

Example

You can fetch top stories, new stories, or best stories. By default, a tibble is returned, if there is a kids column (comments identifier), it will be nested in order to return a single row for each story. You can override this with unnest = TRUE and show comments with comments = TRUE:

library(hackr)
library(dplyr)

hackr_top_stories()
hackr_top_stories(n = 1, unnest = TRUE, comments = TRUE) %>% 
  select(title, comment)
hackr_new_stories(2)
hackr_best_stories(2)