RGoogleTrends

RGoogleTrends_0.2-1.tar.gz (20 October 2009)

This package provides programmatic access to Google Trends data. This is information about the popularity of a particular query. It provides information about how often the query has been made

overall
over time
by region
by city
by language.

The package also provides a way to read cookies from Firefox by accessing the cookies.sqlite database.

Documentation

See the help pages for the functions and their examples. Basically, set the R option GooglePassword with

 option(GooglePassword = c(login = "password"))

Then use

 ans = getGTrends("query term")

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>

Last modified: Sat Oct 17 14:42:55 PDT 2009