R interface to the Meetup API (v3)

Authors: Gabriela de Queiroz, Erin LeDell, Olga Mierzwa-Sulima, Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, Claudia Vitolo
License: MIT

To install the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("rladies/meetupr")

A released version will be on CRAN soon.

To use this package, you will first need to get your meetup API key. To do so, go to this link: https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/key/

Once you have your key, save it as an environment variable by running the following:

Sys.setenv(MEETUP_KEY = "PASTE YOUR MEETUP KEY HERE")

If you don't want to save it here, you can input it in each function using the api_key parameter (just be sure not to send any documents with your key to GitHub 🙊).

We currently have the following functions:

• get_members()
• get_boards()
• get_events()
• get_event_attendees()
• get_event_comments()
• get_event_rsvps()
• find_groups()

Each will output a tibble with information extracted into from the API as well as a list-col named *_resource with all API output. For example, the following code will get all upcoming events for the RLadies Nashville meetup.

library(meetupr)

urlname <- "rladies-nashville"
(events <- get_events(urlname))
#> # A tibble: 2 x 5
#>          id                    name yes_rsvp_count                time
#>       <chr>                   <chr>          <int>              <dttm>
#> 1 243331077   Introduction to purrr             11 2017-11-14 00:00:00
#> 2 243331084 TBA with Laurie Samuels              5 2017-12-01 18:00:00
#> # ... with 1 more variables: resource <list>

Take a look at some resources:

• https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/
• https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/clients/

In order to run our tests, you will have to set the urlname for meetup you belong to as an environment variable using the following code:

Sys.setenv(MEETUP_NAME = "YOUR MEETUP NAME")

• add tests