Sometimes you want to jam data from OpenTSDB into R, so you can do neat things like parameterize it by time. Well, I wrote an R function that does just that!

Here it is on gist.

Here’s a usage example:

read.opentsdb("http://localhost:44242",
    metrics=c("sum:dummy.linear","sum:dummy.random.unif{blah=*}"),
    start="4h-ago")

I considered turning this into a CRAN package, but then I was like “naw.” There’s not very much to it, and writing CRAN packages seems like a big pain. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Anyway, enjoy!