wikiTools

1.2.24

Tools for Wikidata and Wikipedia

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14.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Modesto EscobarFirst published 2022-03-248 releasesCRAN page ↗

A set of wrappers intended to check, read and download information from the Wikimedia sources. It is specifically created to work with names of celebrities, in which case their information and statistics can be downloaded. Additionally, it also builds links and snippets to use in combination with the function gallery() in netCoin package.

Install

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

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

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

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-wikitools

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-wikiTools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Check history

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ERROR2026-07-18
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ERROR2026-03-16
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OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

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Downloads

14.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,194 · ~40/day · ~1.2K/mo

wikiTools Releases R versions

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14.5K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

curl httr jsonlite collections netCoin evolMap

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Modesto Escobar

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Modesto Escobar

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Package Timeline

8 releases. R releases are shown for context.

1.2.24Latest
2026-05-25 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.21
2026-03-16 · diff ↗
1.2.15
2025-10-19 · diff ↗
1.2.14
2025-07-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.8
2025-03-31 · diff ↗
1.2.7
2024-07-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.4
2024-04-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.6
2022-03-24
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-24
Total releases: 8 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 79 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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