long39ng / remmy

R API Client for Lemmy

remmy

An HTTP API client for Lemmy in R.

Code and documentation are generated from the official JavaScript client source.

Lemmy version: 0.18.1

Installation

You can install the released version of remmy from CRAN:

install.packages("remmy")

Or install the development version of remmy from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("long39ng/remmy")

Example

library(remmy)

example_comment <- lemmy_get_comment(546564)

example_comment$comment_view$comment$content
#> [1] "I am not by nature a sentimental person regarding software but I will truly miss RiF."

Acknowledgements

Source code generation was made possible by:

• ts-morph for navigating the TypeScript AST of the official JavaScript client source and extracting the HTTP request methods into JSON.
• jsonlite for parsing objects from JSON to R.
• rlang (and the metaprogramming capabilities of R) for programmatically generating function definitions and parameter and return type documentation.