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wikiTools

Tools for Wikidata and Wikipedia

v1.2.21 · Mar 16, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

A set of wrappers intended to check, read and download information from the Wikimedia sources. It is specifically created to work with names of celebrities, in which case their information and statistics can be downloaded. Additionally, it also builds links and snippets to use in combination with the function gallery() in netCoin package.

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ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Too Many Requests (RFC 6585) (HTTP 429).
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Gateway Timeout (HTTP 504).
INFO: The number of entities (372) exceeds chunksize (50).
  INFO: Requesting elements from 1 to 50
  INFO: Requesting elements from 51 to 100
  INFO: Requesting elements from 101 to 150
  INFO: Requesting elements from 151 to 200
  INFO: Requesting elements from 201 to 250
  INFO: Requesting elements from 251 to 300
  INFO: Requesting elements from 301 to 350
  INFO: Requesting elements from 351 to 372
INFO: Searching labels, latitude and longitude coordinates, and countries for places.
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Too Many Requests (RFC 6585) (HTTP 429).

Quitting from wiki_utils.Rmd:214-224 [unnamed-chunk-16]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error in `colnames<-`:
! attempt to set 'colnames' on an object with less than two dimensions
---
Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. └─wikiTools::w_EntityInfo(...)
 2.   └─base::`colnames<-`(...)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Error: processing vignette 'wiki_utils.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
attempt to set 'colnames' on an object with less than two dimensions
--- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 26, 2026
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Too Many Requests (RFC 6585) (HTTP 429).

Quitting from wiki_utils.Rmd:214-224 [unnamed-chunk-16]
~
...[truncated]...
ed with diagnostics:
attempt to set 'colnames' on an object with less than two dimensions
--- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 20, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 18, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
INFO: The number of entities (370) exceeds chunksize (50).
  INFO: Requesting elements from 1 to 50
  INFO: Requesting elements from 51 to 100
  INFO: Requestin
...[truncated]...
:
Timeout was reached [xtools.wmcloud.org]:
Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds
--- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 16, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 16, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Bad Gateway (HTTP 502).

Quitting from wiki_utils.Rmd:184-189 [unnamed-chunk-13]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...[truncated]...
rror: processing vignette 'wiki_utils.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
invalid argument type
--- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies curl httr jsonlite collections netCoin evolMap wikiTools

Version History

updated 1.2.21 ← 1.2.15 diff Mar 16, 2026
new 1.2.15 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.15 ← 1.2.14 diff Oct 18, 2025
updated 1.2.14 ← 1.2.8 diff Jul 10, 2025
updated 1.2.8 ← 1.2.7 diff Mar 30, 2025
updated 1.2.7 ← 1.2.4 diff Jul 27, 2024
updated 1.2.4 ← 0.0.6 diff Apr 12, 2024
new 0.0.6 Mar 23, 2022