We aim to make the R language for statistical analysis accessible to the Steem community by providing an native R interface to the data from the Steem Blockchain. You can read more about it at
This project was originally called steemR, but due to a naming conflict we have renamed steemR to steemRdata.
New Features
In this update we have renamed the project and added significant new features for retrieving data directly from the steem blockchain.
Steem is calling the R Community
The R community is a community of collaborating open source data scientists and analysts from all over the world. I will continue development on this package and when it is ready for a stable release I will submit it to the core R repository.
This package will provide the R community with a rich, live, raw public datasource and this package will raise the awareness of Steem.
What is R?
R is a statistical programming language and environment that is widely used in academia and increasingly in production environments.
R is synonymous with well documented reproducible research which makes iteration and model refinement very transparent and robust.
You can use R for Machine Learning, for Data Manipulation but my favourite use of R is for the Powerful Graphic Capabilities that it provides.
steemRdata
(a data package for the R programming language, originally called steemR)
Repository
https://github.com/kharoof/steemRdata
This new Repo only contains one commit but you can see a full list of commits by looking at the original steemR repository https://github.com/kharoof/steemR
Apart from a new name we have continued adding functions for retrieving data and made a few bug fixes in this release.
Bug Fixes
There are a few bug fixes included in this build:
- These included updates to the Payout Variables which we have fixed.
- We have also improved the layout of the code in the functions.R file
New Features
What feature(s) did you add?
We added 6 new user functions that get and clean useful data directly from the Steem Blockchain
getAccountVotes
- Get a List of Votes made by an Account
getDelegation
- Get a List of Accounts that have been delegated to
getPost
- Get Details of a Post
getPostsByTag
- Get Details of Posts using a Tag
getTransactions
- Get Transactions on an Account
getWitnesses
- Get a List of Witnesses
How did you implement it/them?
They are accessible on the command line and we have also documented them in the help file. You can see the commits by looking at the steemR repository. We have created a new repository which includes all the above commits and depreciated development on the steemR repository.
How to contribute?
If you are an R user, you may find this project useful and we welcome pull requests to add features and bux fixes.