(Cross-posted to Discovery and Wikidata lists.)

Hi all! I just wanted to make a quick and brief announcement that there's now a way to use WDQS API from R with my new WikidataQueryServiceR package[1], inspired by Oliver Keyes' WikipediR[2] and WikidataR[3] packages.

Current 0.0.3 release supports:

- Sending one or more SPARQL queries and getting back a data.frame (or a list of data.frames)

- Scraping examples page[4] and extracting SPARQL query/queries

I'll give it a few days to see if I or anyone else comes across any bugs or usability issues (please report those at [5]) and then I'll submit it to Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).

Cheers,
Mikhail Popov // Count Logula

Discovery, Wikimedia Foundation

[1] https://github.com/bearloga/WikidataQueryServiceR
[2] https://github.com/Ironholds/WikipediR
[3] https://github.com/Ironholds/WikidataR

[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples

[5] https://github.com/bearloga/WikidataQueryServiceR/issues