newsr

All of news-r R tools in one place.

Packages

Lists of packages included.

Data

Data-related packages, packages to collect data, generally from APIs. THe letterbox packages attempts at providing a unified API for all of the latter.

• newsapi - newsapi.org (news aggregator)
• guardian - The Guardian API
• papers - Information on newspapers
• loc - Library of Congress API
• webhoser - webhose.io API (news aggregator)
• currents - Currents API (news aggregator)
• nytimes - New York Times API
• spotlight - Entity extraction with DBPedia Spotlight
• stocknews - Stocknews API (financial news)
• ft - Financial Times API
• accunews - AccuNews API (local news)
• newsriver - newsriver.io API (news aggregator)
• hoaxy - Fake news monitoring
• factcheck - Fact check queries or publishers
• letterbox - News article crawler

Analysis

Packages for analysis, generally text mining.

• textanalysis - Broad text analysis in R
• gensimr - Topic Modeling
• word2vec.r - Word2Vec embeddings in R
• phrasenets - Create phrase networks

Installation

You can install newsr from Github with remotes:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("news-r/newsr")

Loading newsr essentially loads all packages in the environment.

library(newsr)
#> ── Attaching newsr ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── newsr 0.0.1 ──
#> ✔ newsapi      0.0.1     ✔ stocknews    0.0.1
#> ✔ guardian     0.0.1     ✔ ft           0.0.1
#> ✔ papers       0.0.1     ✔ newsriver    0.0.1
#> ✔ loc          0.0.1     ✔ letterbox    0.0.1
#> ✔ webhoser     0.0.1     ✔ factcheck    0.0.1
#> ✔ accunews     0.0.1     ✔ textanalysis 0.0.1
#> ✔ hoaxy        0.0.2     ✔ gensimr      0.0.1
#> ✔ currents     0.0.1     ✔ word2vec.r   0.0.1
#> ✔ nytimes      0.1.0     ✔ phrasenets   0.0.1
#> ✔ spotlight    0.1.0

The only function currently available is to check which API keys as set, or in other words, which APIs (packages) the user may call.

check_keys()
#> ℹ webhoserx, loc, and papers packages do not require keys
#> ✔ newsapi key found
#> ✔ currents key found
#> ✖ factcheck key not found
#> ✔ guardian key found
#> ✔ nytimes key found
#> ✔ ft key found
#> ✔ stocknews key found
#> ✔ accunews key found
#> ✔ newsriver key found
#> ✔ hoaxy key found
#> ✔ webhoser key found

Please note that the ‘newsr’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.