hackeRnews0.1.0 package

Checks whether max_items is correctly defined. If not throws an error

Converts comment to a dataframe row

Creates an object representing a response from the Hacker News API

Creates an object representing Hacker News item

Creates an object representing Hacker News user

Creates a request url based on the given base url and passed paths. Th...

return specified variable or default value if specified variable is nu...

Returns the base url of the Hacker News API

Sends a request to the specified url and retrieves it's content.

Hacker News best stories

Hacker News best stories ids

Hacker News nested comments

Hacker News nested comments with root comment

Retrieves the response content

Get Hacker News by Id

Get Hacker News by ids

Hacker News latest ask stories

Hacker News latest ask stories ids

Hacker News latest job stories

Hacker News latest job stories ids

Hacker News latest show stories

Hacker News latest show stories ids

Hacker News item largest id

Hacker News newest stories

Hacker News newest stories ids

Hacker News top stories

Hacker News top stories ids

Hacker News updated profiles

Get Hacker News user

Checks whether the given object is of the class hn_api_response.

Checks whether the given object is of the class hn_item

Checks whether the given object is of the class hn_user

Parses a json response

Print for "hn_item" type objects

Print for "hn_user" type objects

Converts numeric value into POSIXct datetime type

Selects only limited number of ids

Checks if the given response is not empty and that it did not return a...

Checks whether the given object is correctly defined hn_item class

Checks whether the given object is correctly defined hn_user class

Adds the json extension to the given url

Adds the given path to the given url

Asserts a given expression and throws an error if it returns FALSE

Checks whether ids are correctly defined. If not throws an error