README.md

In wikimedia/wikimedia-discovery-wmf: R Tools For Wikimedia Foundation's Analysts And Data Scientists

wmfdata: R tools for Wikimedia Foundation's Analysts & Data Scientists

NOTICE: while this package is installed from GitHub (wikimedia/wmfdata-r), that repository is a read-only mirror of wikimedia/discovery/wmf repository hosted on Gerrit. See mediawiki:Developer account for information about creating a Wikimedia Developer account for contributing to this package, MediaWiki, and other Wikimedia projects.

Other packages from Wikimedia Foundations's Product Analytics team include wmfdata for working with Wikimedia data in Python, and waxer for querying Wikimedia Analytics Query Service in R, and wmfastr for speedy dwelltime and search preference metrics calculations in R.

Installation

# install.packages("remotes", repos = c(CRAN = "https://cran.rstudio.com/"))
remotes::install_github("wikimedia/wmfdata-r")

To update:

remotes::update_packages("wmfdata")

Highlights

• set_proxies to set http(s) proxies on the analytics cluster
• global_query for querying all of our MySQL databases
• Utilities for working with logs, including EventLogging data:
• from_mediawiki and from_log (and corresponding to_* functions) to convert between time formats
• query_hive for querying our Hadoop cluster via Hive
• mysql_read for querying our MariaDB databases
• uses automatic shard detection, see ?connection_details for more info
• Sample size calculations:
  • chisq_test_odds estimates sample size for a chi-squared test given an odds ratio
  • chisq_test_effect estimates sample size for a chi-squared test given Cohen's w

Also includes Wikimedia Design visual style colors:

Maintainers

• Mikhail Popov

Additional Information

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

wikimedia/wikimedia-discovery-wmf documentation built on Feb. 7, 2021, 12:19 a.m.