artist.getTopTracks {RLastFM}R Documentation

API call to artist.getTopTrack

Description

API call to artist.getTopTrack

Usage

artist.getTopTracks(artist, mbid = NA, key = lastkey, parse = TRUE)

Arguments

artist Name of the artist, in quotes
mbid Optionally, use the artist mbid instead of artist
key API key, defaults to global variable lastkey
parse Parse the returned XML into a list?

Value

If parse = TRUE,

track Track title
playcount Reported playcount
rank Rank. Not necessarily in order of playcount.

If parse = FALSE, a object of type "XMLInternalDocument" and "XMLAbstractDocument"

Note

API is sensitive to spelling.

Author(s)

Greg Hirson <ghirson@ucdavis.edu>

References

http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=277

Examples

res = artist.getTopTracks("Wilco")
#res[[1]][1:10]
# [1] "Kamera"                          "Jesus, etc."                    
# [3] "War On War"                      "Heavy Metal Drummer"            
# [5] "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" "Pot Kettle Black"               
# [7] "I'm the Man Who Loves You"       "Impossible Germany"             
# [9] "Ashes of American Flags"         "Radio Cure"                     
#res[[2]][1:10]


[Package RLastFM version 0.1-4 Index]