imguR Package (version 0.1.2)

This is a simple package which enables intuitive uploading of plots created in R to the free image hosting service www.imgur.com simply, quickly and intuitively.

Requirements and Installation

• RCurl and XML packages- avaiilable from CRAN

  install.packages(c("RCurl", "XML"))

• imguR itself

  download.file("http://github.com/downloads/astatham/imgur-R-Package/imguR_0.1.2.tar.gz", "imguR_0.1.2.tar.gz")

  install.packages("imguR_0.1.2.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")

Example Usage

> library(imguR)

> imguR()

> plot(x=1:10, y=-1:-10, col=1:10, pch=19, main="oh hai dere")

> dev.off()

[1] "http://imgur.com/nsDOm"

Or check out this gist for an idea of some cool automation you can do using imguR().

Links

imguR package github

The R Project

imgur

imgur API documentation

Author Contact

Aaron Statham ([email protected])

Last updated 31st August 2010