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twitteR

twitteR is an R package which provides access to the Twitter API. Most functionality of the API is supported, with a bias towards API calls that are more useful in data analysis as opposed to daily interaction.

Getting Started

• Please read the user vignette, which admittedly can get a bit out of date
• Create a Twitter application at http://dev.twitter.com. Make sure to give the app read, write and direct message authority.
• Take note of the following values from the Twitter app page: “API key”, “API secret”, “Access token”, and “Access token secret”.
• You can use the CRAN version (stable) via the standard install.packages("twitteR") or use the github version. To do the latter:
  • install.packages(c("devtools", "rjson", "bit64", "httr"))
  • Make sure to restart your R session at this point
  • library(devtools)
  • install_github("geoffjentry/twitteR")
• At this point you should have twitteR installed and can proceed:
  • library(twitteR)
  • setup_twitter_oauth("API key", "API secret")
    • The API key and API secret are from the Twitter app page above. This will lead you through httr’s OAuth authentication process. I recommend you look at the man page for Token in httr for an explanation of how it handles caching.
  • You should be ready to go!
• If you have any questions or issues, check out the mailing list

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.