{"id":6491,"date":"2017-09-28T08:27:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2018-03-10T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T12:54:14","slug":"sodd-stackoverflow-driven-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2017\/09\/28\/sodd-stackoverflow-driven-development\/","title":{"rendered":"SODD \u2014 StackOverflow Driven-Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

I occasionally hang out on StackOverflow and often use an answer as an opportunity to fill a package void for a particular need. docxtractr<\/code><\/a> and qrencoder<\/code><\/a> are two (of many) packages that were birthed from SO answers. I usually try to answer with inline code first then expand the functionality into a package (if warranted). Some make it to CRAN (like those two), others stay on GitHub.<\/p>\n

This (short) post is about two new ones: webhose<\/code>?<\/a> and pigeon<\/code>?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The webhose<\/code> package is an API interface package to https:\/\/webhose.io\/<\/a>, which is an interesting service that scrapes the web & “dark web” and provides a short but handy API to retrieving the content using a fairly intuitive query language.<\/p>\n

The pigeon<\/code> package is a hastily-hacked-together wrapper around pgn-extract<\/code><\/a>, a cross-platform utility written in C for working with chess game data in PGN<\/a> format.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to have any time to round out the corners on either of those packages but will gladly make time<\/em> to help anyone who wants to jump on board to either (or both!) of them.<\/p>\n

Working on either package will let you get your feet wet (or, wetter) with R package development. They both need:<\/p>\n