Using R and the SparkTable package to get Wordpress postview sparklines. See http://mashe.hawksey.info/2013/01/wordpress-stats-in-r-postviews-sparktable

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# <- Start of bit by Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) see http://blog.ouseful.info/2013/01/09/wordpress-stats-in-r/

#Wordpress Stats
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#Wordpress Stats API docs (from http://stats.wordpress.com/csv.php)

#You can get a copy of your API key (required) from Akismet:
#Login with you Wordpress account: http://akismet.com/account/
#Resend API key: https://akismet.com/resend/

#Required parameters: api_key, blog_id or blog_uri.
#Optional parameters: table, post_id, end, days, limit, summarize.

#Parameters:
#api_key     String    A secret unique to your WordPress.com user account.
#blog_id     Integer   The number that identifies your blog. Find it in other stats URLs.
#blog_uri    String    The full URL to the root directory of your blog. Including the full path.
#table       String    One of views, postviews, referrers, referrers_grouped, searchterms, clicks, videoplays.
#post_id     Integer   For use with postviews table.
#end         String    The last day of the desired time frame. Format is 'Y-m-d' (e.g. 2007-05-01) and default is UTC date.
#days        Integer   The length of the desired time frame. Default is 30. "-1" means unlimited.
#period      String    For use with views table and the 'days' parameter. The desired time period grouping. 'week' or 'month'
#Use 'days' as the number of results to return (e.g. '&period=week&days=12' to return 12 weeks)
#limit       Integer   The maximum number of records to return. Default is 100. "-1" means unlimited. If days is -1, limit is capped at 500.
#summarize   Flag      If present, summarizes all matching records.
#format      String    The format the data is returned in, 'csv', 'xml' or 'json'. Default is 'csv'.
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#NOTE: some of the report calls I tried didn't seem to work properly?
#Need to build up a list of tested calls to the API that actually do what you think they should?
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wordpress.getstats.demo=function(apikey, blogurl, table='postviews', end=Sys.Date(), days='12', period='week', limit='', summarise=''){
  #default parameters gets back last 12 weeks of postviews aggregated by week
  url=paste('http://stats.wordpress.com/csv.php?',
            'api_key=',apikey,
            '&blog_uri=',blogurl,
            '&table=',table,
            '&end=',end,
            '&days=',days,
            '&period=',period,
            '&limit=',limit,
            '&',summarise, #set this to 'summarise=T' if required
            sep=''
  )
  #Martin's post notes that JSON appears to work better than CSV
  #May be worth doing a JSON parsing version?
  read.csv(url)
}


APIKEY='YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
#Use the URL of a Wordpress blog associated with the same account as the API key
BLOGURL='http://mashe.hawksey.info'

#Examples
wp.pageviews.last12weeks=wordpress.getstats.demo(APIKEY,BLOGURL)
wp.views.last12weeks.byweek=wordpress.getstats.demo(APIKEY,BLOGURL,'views')
wp.views.last30days.byday=wordpress.getstats.demo(APIKEY,BLOGURL,'views',days=30,period='')
wp.clicks.wpdefault=wordpress.getstats.demo(APIKEY,BLOGURL,'clicks',days='',period='')
wp.clicks.lastday=wordpress.getstats.demo(APIKEY,BLOGURL,'clicks',days='1',period='')
wp.referrers.lastday=wordpress.getstats.demo(APIKEY,BLOGURL,'referrers',days='1',period='')

# -> End of bit by Tony Hirst (@psychemedia)

require(reshape)
# getting stats for postviews last year. Note examples above for different query options e.g. without end date 
wp.postviews=wordpress.getstats.demo(APIKEY,BLOGURL,'postviews',days='366',end='2012-12-31', period='day',limit=-1) 
# make data frame of just title, views and date
data <- data.frame(post_title=wp.postviews$post_title, views=wp.postviews$views, date=wp.postviews$date)
# convert date string into date
data$date <- as.Date(as.character(data$date ),format="%Y-%m-%d")
# cast data frame to fill missing data points with 0 (seemed to be required for spaarkTable)
data.casted <- cast(data, post_title ~ date, sum)
# melt back for sparkTable
data.melted <- melt(data.casted, id.vars=c("post_title"))
df <- data.melted
# examples appear to use set column heading variabe, value and time 
columnNames <- c("variable","value","time")
colnames(df) <- columnNames


library(sparkTable)
# sparkTable cobbled together from http://stackoverflow.com/q/8588060/1027723 and 
#http://web.warwick.ac.uk/statsdept/user2011/TalkSlides/Contributed/18Aug_0950_FocusVI_4-ReportingData_2-Kowarik.pdf
content<-list()
#content[['LinePlot']]<-newSparkLine()
content[['BarPlot']]<-newSparkBar()
content [['Mean']] <- function (x) { round(sum(x)/length(which(x>0)),1) }
content [['Max']] <- function (x) { max(x) }
content [['Views']] <- function (x) { sum(x) }
content [['Days']] <- function(x) { length(which(x>0)) }

varType<-rep("value",5)
df<-df[,c("variable","value","time")]
df$time<-as.numeric(as.character(df$time))
dat<-reshapeExt(df,idvar="variable",varying=list(2))
sparkTab<-newSparkTable(dat,content,varType)
plotSparkTable ( sparkTab , outputType = "html", filename = "t1")


# a dead end but keeping in for ref - adding summary to cast of data frame
pivot <- cast(data, post_title ~ date, sum, fill=NA)
noDays <- ncol(pivot)
pivot$sum <- apply(pivot[2:noDays], 1, sum, na.rm=TRUE)
pivot$max <- apply(pivot[2:noDays], 1, max, na.rm=TRUE)
pivot$mean <- lapply(pivot$mean,round,2)
pivot$count <- apply(pivot[2:noDays], 1, function(x) length(which(!is.na(x))))

pivot.sort <- pivot[order(-pivot$mean) , ][1:20,]


# <- More of Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) see http://blog.ouseful.info/2013/01/09/wordpress-stats-in-r/
require(stringr)
getDomain=function(url) str_match(url, "^http[s]?://([^/]*)/.*?")[, 2]

#We can pull out the domains clicks were sent to or referrals came from
wp.clicks.lastday$domain=getDomain(wp.clicks.lastday$click)
wp.referrers.lastday$domain=getDomain(wp.referrers.lastday$referrer)

require(ggplot2)

#Scruffy bar chart - is there a way of doing this sorted chart using geom_bar? How would we reorder x?
c=as.data.frame(table(wp.clicks.yesterday$domain))
ggplot(c)+geom_bar(aes(x=reorder(Var1,Freq),y=Freq),stat='identity')+theme( axis.text.x=element_text(angle=-90))

c=as.data.frame(table(wp.referrers.lastday$domain))
ggplot(c)+geom_bar(aes(x=reorder(Var1,Freq),y=Freq),stat='identity')+theme( axis.text.x=element_text(angle=-90))