It started of as an attempt to analyse some data stored in Apache Kafka using R, and ended up becoming the start of an R package to interact with Confluent's REST Proxy API.

While rkafka already allows the creation of a producer and a consumer from R, writing some R functions interfacing with its REST API was an interesting way to learn a bit more about Kafka's inner workings, and demonstrate how easy it is to interact with any REST API from R thanks to httr.

The result is available to clone on my git server.