https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/httr/ Recent content in Httr on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/02/trapinch/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/02/trapinch/ tl;dr I’ve used the {httr2} R package to create {trapinch}, a package that wraps PokéAPI for fetching Pokémon data. Update I had found a couple of older, non-{httr2} PokéAPI wrappers for R (see footnotes), but had somehow missed one that already uses {httr2}: see Ash Baldry’s {pokeapi} package, which he wrote months ago! {httr} me baby one more time The {httr2} package lets you talk to the internet. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/zzz/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/zzz/ tl;dr I got curious about R package startup messages, so I grabbed all the special zzz.R files from R packages that are on CRAN and sourced on GitHub. You can jump to the table of results. Start me up I learnt recently from Hernando Cortina that his and Amanda Dobbyn’s {multicolor} package prints to the console some multicoloured ASCII-art text of the package’s name when you call it with library(multicolor). https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/10/linkrot/ Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/10/linkrot/ tl;dr I wrote a little function to check web pages for link rot and put it in the tiny R package {linkrot} in case you want to use or improve it. Page not found You’ve clicked a link before and been taken somewhere you weren’t expecting. Sometimes it’s because you’ve been rickrolled,1 sure, but content on the internet is constantly being moved or removed and links break all the time.