hackeRnews

0.2.2

Wrapper for the 'Official Hacker News' API

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

95.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ryszard SzymanskiFirst published 2019-12-133 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Use the Official Hacker News API through R. Retrieve posts, articles and other items in form of convenient R objects.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("hackeRnews", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("szymanskir/hackeRnews")

Development version from szymanskir/hackeRnews. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-hackernews

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-hackeRnews

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.62

95.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 183 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,841 · ~9/day · ~263/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ szymanskir/hackernews

24Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

59Commits

6Contributors

59 commits · Last activity 2025-12-02

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/szymanskir/hackernews on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

utilshttr2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr testthat httptest2 knitr rmarkdown spelling tibble

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Ryszard Szymanski

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Authors (5)

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-13
Total releases: 3 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 436 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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