The goal of gtrendsAPI is to provides a platform to access data from the official Google Trends API through R.
You can install the development version of gtrendsAPI from GitHub like so:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("racorreia/gtrendsAPI", build_vignettes = T)This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:
# Load the gtrendsAPI package
library(gtrendsAPI)
# Query the Google Trends API for worldwide search data on the word 'apple'
# apple_sv <- getGraph("apple", api.key = "YOUR_API_KEY")Examples of the use of each function available in this package are provided in the function help, which can be accessed like so:
# Get function help
?getGraph