Access the MTurk Requester API via R
The MTurkR package provides access to the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) Requester API via authenticated HTTP requests executed with RCurl and a number of functions to translate API calls into R data structures (using the XML package).
Read more about the package:
Install latest version
To install the latest development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github(repo="MTurkR", username = "leeper")
Some code examples
- Examples in an introductory article: "Crowdsourcing with R and the MTurk API" in The Political Methodologist 20(1):2-7.
- Examples from a blog post by Solomon Messing: "Streamline Your Mechanical Turk Workflow with MTurkR
- Sample code to create and manage qualifications, with associated xml files for QuestionForm and AnswerKey
- Workflow and sample code to mimick the Requester UI's display of input HITLayout parameters with assignment results.
- Access your Turkopticon requester ratings from R.