R package helper

[aron-bordin]

R package

This PR contains the initial work in the R package helper, with the project structure and basic code and docs.

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Install

To install the dev package from github, use:

1. cd helpers/R/scrapystreaming/
2. R
3. library(devtools)
4. devtools::check()
5. Exit the R console
6. cd ..
7. R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch --with-keep.source scrapystreaming

Now, open a new R console and loads using library(scrapystreaming).

Docs

This package has internal documentation. You can type help("Name of the command") to get information about the parameters, examples, and behaviors. For example, help("create_spider").

And you can read an online documentation here: http://gsoc2016.readthedocs.io/en/latest/r.html and a simple tutorial about it.

Testing and examples

There are some examples in this branch #4
You can download and run the examples in the R folder.