diff --git a/WebTechnologies.md b/WebTechnologies.md index f1eee4e..f5b64ab 100644 --- a/WebTechnologies.md +++ b/WebTechnologies.md @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Colloquially, these activities are called It also requires no external system dependencies. - `r pkg("aws.signature")` provides functionality for generating AWS API request signatures. - *Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)* is a cloud computing service. - `r gcode("segue")` (not on CRAN) manages EC2 instances and S3 storage, + `r gcode("segue")` manages EC2 instances and S3 storage, which includes a parallel version of `lapply()` for the Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) engine called `emrlapply()`. It uses Hadoop Streaming on Amazon's EMR in order to get simple parallel computation. @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ This list describes online services. For a more complete treatment of the topic - *Geolocation/Geocoding*: Services that translate between addresses and longlats. `r pgk("rgeolocate")` offers several online and offline tools. - `r github("trestletech/rydn")` (not on CRAN) is an interface to the + `r github("trestletech/rydn")` is an interface to the Yahoo Developers network geolocation APIs, and `r github("hrbrmstr/ipapi")` can be used to geolocate IPv4/6 addresses and/or domain names using the API. @@ -432,12 +432,12 @@ The following packages provide an interface to its associated service, unless no - *Twitter*: `r pkg("rtweet")` provides an interface through its API. - `r github("gvegayon/twitterreport")` (not on CRAN) focuses on report generation based on Twitter data. + `r github("gvegayon/twitterreport")` focuses on report generation based on Twitter data. `r pkg("streamR")` allows users to access Twitter's filter, sample, and user streams, and to parse the output into data frames. OAuth authentication is supported. `r pkg("graphTweets")` produces a network graph from a data.frame of tweets. - `r github("pablobarbera/twitter_ideology")` (not on CRAN) implements a political ideology scaling measure for specified Twitter users. + `r github("pablobarbera/twitter_ideology")` implements a political ideology scaling measure for specified Twitter users. - *Facebook*: `r pkg("Rfacebook")` - *Instagram*: @@ -445,13 +445,13 @@ The following packages provide an interface to its associated service, unless no - *LinkedIn*: `r pkg("Rlinkedin")` - *Stack Exchange*: - `r github("dgrtwo/stackr")` (not on CRAN) + `r github("dgrtwo/stackr")` - *Pinterest*: `r pkg("rpinterest")` - *VK*: `r pkg("vkR")` the social networking site based in Russia. - *Meetup*: - `r github("rladies/meetupr")` (not on CRAN) + `r github("rladies/meetupr")` - *Brandwatch*: `r pkg("brandwatchR")` - *Hacker News*: @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ The following packages provide an interface to its associated service, unless no - *Slack*: `r pkg("slackr")` - *Discourse*: - `r github("sckott/discgolf")` (archived; not on CRAN) + `r github("sckott/discgolf")` provides an interface to an instance of Discourse, not to the Discourse site itself. ### Survey, Questionnaire, and Data Capture Tools @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ The following packages interface with *tools* that facilitate web analytics. ### Generating Synthetic Data - *MockaRoo API*: - `r github("stephlocke/mockaRoo")` (not on CRAN) generates mock or fake data based on an input schema. + `r github("stephlocke/mockaRoo")` generates mock or fake data based on an input schema. - *RandomAPI*: `r github("karthik/randNames")` generates random names and personal identifying information. @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ Please see the *`r view("ReproducibleResearch")`* CRAN Task View for more tools `r pkg("FastRWeb")` provides some basic infrastructure for this. `r pkg("plumber")` allows you to create a REST API by decorating existing R source code. `r pkg("beakr")` provides an R version of functionality found in python Flask and JavaScript Express.js. -- `r github("omegahat/RDCOMClient")` (not on CRAN) which provides user-level access from R to other COM servers. +- `r github("omegahat/RDCOMClient")` which provides user-level access from R to other COM servers. - `r pkg("radiant")` is Shiny-based GUI for R that runs in a browser from a server or local machine. - The 'Tiki' Wiki CMS/Groupware framework has an R plugin (`PluginR`) to run R code from wiki pages, and use data from their own collected web databases (trackers).