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vosonSML Twitter
functions to support major changes made in rtweet release
version 1.0.2.endpoint parameter to the Twitter
Collect function. It is set to search by
default, which is the usual collect behaviour, but can also now be set
to timeline to collect user timelines instead. See
Collect.timeline.twitter() for parameters.vosonSML functions are
now silent by default. Using the verbose parameter will
again print function output.message() function
instead of the cat() function by default. Setting the
global option option(voson.msg = FALSE) will again redirect
output to cat(). The option can be removed by assigning a
value of NULL.voson.data option allowing a directory path
to be set for writeToFile output files. Files are output to
the current working directory by default, however a new directory can
now be set with option(voson.data = "my-data") for example.
The directory path can be relative or a full path, but must be created
beforehand or already exist. If the path is invalid or does not exist it
will continue with the default behaviour. This option can be removed by
assigning a value of NULL. This will not effect other file
write operations performed by the user.Twitter AddText() and
AddUserData() functions now work with most
Twitter network types.AddText() now adds columns for embedded tweet text and
has a hashtags parameter to add a list of tweet hashtags as
a network attribute.AddUserData() now adds an additional dataframe for
missing_users. It lists the ids and screen names of users
that did not have metadata embedded in the collected data. Using the
lookupUsers parameter will retrieve the metadata using the
twitter API. Additonally passing the refresh = TRUE
parameter will now retrieve and update the metadata for all users in the
network.tweets and users.ImportData function and replaced it with
ImportRtweet() for rtweet version 1.0 format
data.Merge() and MergeFiles() functions
to support the merging of collected data from separate operations. These
functions support input of multiple Collect objects or .RDS
files, automatically detect the datasource type and support the
writeToFile parameter for file output of merged data.YouTube id extraction from url function to be
more robust and added support for YouTube shorts urls.GetYoutubeVideoIDs function. The
YouTube collect function parameter videoIDs
will now accept video ids or video urls.auth_twitter_app(),
auth_twitter_dev() and auth_twitter_user()
functions for each token type. The collect_reddit_threads()
and collect_web_hyperlinks() functions skip the unecessary
Authenticate step for Reddit and web data
collection.status ID to summarise
collected tweet range. The Min ID and Max ID
are not necessarily the earliest and latest tweet in the tweets
collected and therefore not ideal for delimiting subsequent collections.
Instead the two Earliest Obs and two
Latest Obs tweets as returned by the
Twitter API are now reported.enpoint parameter to Collect,
allowing search or timeline to be specified
for a twitter data collection. If it is not specified the
default is a twitter search.timeline collection accepts a users
vector of user names or ID’s or a mixture of both, and will return up to
3,200 of each users most recent tweets.Create.actor.twitter and
Create.activity.twitter to use dplyr and
data.table techniques consistent with other package network
creation functions. Both functions are significantly faster for large
collection dataframes.Create.actor.twitter includes two new parameters for
mentions, inclMentions that will process and
include mentions edges in the network and
inclRtMentions that will process and include mentions found
in retweets. The inclMentions parameter is set to
TRUE by default and inclRtMentions set to
FALSE. The inclRtMentions parameter is a
subset of mentions, therefore for it to be set to TRUE,
inclMentions must also be TRUE.Create.activity.twitter network creation. Added
author_id and author_screen_name to nodes to
assist with labels or re-creating tweet URLs from data.rmEdgeTypes parameter to
Create.activity.twitter and
Create.actor.twitter. These accept a list of edge types
that can be filtered out of the network during network creation.Graph function.Min ID will be the same, but sometimes the
Min ID is outside of the expected collection range. The
last observation is a more reliable tweet to use as the starting point
for subsequent search collections.Collect method with hyperlink
network creation. The Create function with
activity type parameter creates a network where nodes are
web pages and edges the hyperlinks linking
them (extracted from a href HTML tags). The
actor network has page or site domains as the
nodes and again the hyperlinks from linking pages between
domains.Collect dataframes to avoid dplyr issues.retryOnRateLimit set to FALSE if
rate limit cannot be determined.ImportData will now accept a file path or a
dataframe.Collect dataframes
after writeToFile. Should no longer be required to manually
add class names or use ImportData to load RDS files to use
previously saved data with Create functions.Create.semantic.twitter,
Create.twomode.twitter and the
Intro-to-vosonSML vignette:
tidyr, tidytext and
stopwords package requirements in descriptions and
examplestwomode networks as
2-mode where possiblevctrs error when using dplyr functions. The
classes are no longer needed post-method routing so they are simply
removed.dplyr::funs
function that was generating a warning.bind_rows error on joining
dataframes with different types for the structure column. Column type
was being set to integer instead of character in cases when every thread
comment have no replies or depth (except the OP).Create.semantic.twitter and
Create.twomode.twitter functions using the
tidytext package. They now better support tokenization of
tweet text and allows a range of stopword lists and sources to be used
from the stopwords package. The semantic network function
requires the tidytext and tidyr packages to be
installed before use.Create.semantic.twitter:
removeNumbers and removeUrls, default value is
TRUE.assoc parameter has been added to choose which node
associations or ties to include in the network. The default value is
"limited" and includes only ties between most frequently
occurring hashtags and terms in tweets. A value of full
will also include ties between most frequently occurring hashtags and
hashtags, and terms with terms creating a more densely connected
network.stopwords language e.g
stopwordsLang = "en" and source e.g
stopwordsSrc = "smart" have been added. These correspond to
the language and source parameters of the
tidytext::get_stopwords function. The
stopwords default value is TRUE.Create.twomode.twitter
function is weighted by default but can be disabled by setting the new
weighted parameter to FALSE.replies_from_text parameter to
repliesFromText and at_replies_only to
atRepliesOnly in the AddText.actor.youtube
function for consistency.tm package dependency.Introduction to vosonSML vignette
Merging Collected Data examples.Collect.youtube that was
causing no video comments to be collected if there were no reply
comments for any of the videos first maxComments number of
top level comments. For example, if maxComments is set to
100 and the first 100 comments made to a video had no replies then no
results would be returned.rtweet::rate_limit function that resulted in an
error when using the rtweet retryonratelimit search
parameter. The rate_limit function was being called by
vosonSML to check the twitter rate limit regardless of
whether the search parameter was set or not, and so was failing
Collect with an error. A fix was made so that
vosonSML checks if rtweet::rate_limit
succeeds, and if not automatically sets retryonratelimit to
FALSE so that a twitter Collect can still be
performed without error should this problem occur again.pkgdown site navbar.Introduction to vosonSML vignette.Introduction to vosonSML vignette to the
package.ImportData.Authenticate and
ImportData.jsonlite::fromJSON.tictoc package from dependency imports to
suggested packages.rtweet package is
installed.RedditExtractoR package from imports.twomode networks.bimodal networks to twomode.AddText() and Graph(). Also improved
consistency of output messages from Collect and
Create functions.reddit gsub locale error
https://github.com/vosonlab/vosonSML/issues/21.bimodal network hashtags to lowercase as filter
terms when entered are converted to lowercase.bimodal
and semantic networks.GetVideoData() function call in
AddVideoData.AddText functions related to
strict typing by dplyr::if_else function.AddText
function to redirect edges towards actors based on the presence of a
screen name or @screen name that may be found
at the beginning of a reply comment. Typically reply comments are
directed towards a top-level comment, this instead captures when reply
comments are directed to other commenters in the thread.actor network identifiers to be their
unique Channel ID instead of their
screen names.AddVideoData function to add collected
video data to the youtube actor network. The main purpose
of this function is to replace video identifiers with the
Channel ID of the video publisher (actor) instead. To get
the Channel ID of video publishers an additional API lookup
for the videos in the network is required. Additional columns such as
video Title, Description and
Published time are also added to the network
$edges dataframe as well as returned in their own dataframe
called $videos.AddText function to add collected text data
to networks. This feature applies to activity and
actor networks and will typically add a node attribute to
activity networks and an edge attribute to actor networks. For example,
this function will add the column vosonTxt_tweets
containing tweet text to $nodes if passed an activity
network, and to $edges if passed an actor network.igraph graph objects and subsequent
writing to file has been removed from the Create function
and placed in a new function Graph. This change abstracts
the graph creation and makes it optional, but also allows supplemental
network steps such as AddText to be performed prior to
creating the final igraph object.writeToFile parameter from Create
functions and added it to Graph.weightEdges, textData and
cleanText parameters from Create.actor.reddit.
cleanText is now a parameter of
AddText.activity.reddit and
AddText.actor.reddit.AddTwitterUserData with
AddUserData function that works similarly to
AddText. This function currently only applies to twitter
actor networks and will add, or download add if missing, user profile
information to actors as node attributes.activity network type for reddit. In the reddit
activity network nodes are the thread posts and comments, edges
represent where comments are directed in the threads.activity network type for twitter and youtube
Create function. In this network nodes are the items
collected such as tweets returned from a twitter search and comments
posted to youtube videos. Edges represent the platform relationship
between the tweets or comments.self-loop.
This aims to facilitate the later addition of tweet text to the network
graph for user tweets that have no ties to other users.rtweet::create_token. Method is used when only twitter app
name and consumer keys are passed to Authenticate.twitter
as parameters. e.g
Authenticate("twitter", appName = "An App", apiKey = "xxxxxxxxxxxx", apiSecret = "xxxxxxxxxxxx").
A browser tab will open asking the user to authorize the app to their
twitter account to complete authentication. This is using twitters
Application-user authentication: OAuth 1a (access token for user context)
method.file) via the HTTPUserAgent
option. It is temporarily set to package name and current version number
for Collect e.g vosonSML v.0.27.2 (R Package).Create.semantic.twitter in which a sum
operation calculating edge weights would set NA values for
all edges due to NA values present in the hashtag fields.
This occurs when there are tweets with no hashtags in the twitter
collection and is now checked.Create.semantic.twitter
were also fixed.Collect.twitter in which any additional
twitter API parameters e.g lang or
until were not being passed properly to
rtweet::search_tweets. This resulted in the additional
parameters being ignored.SaveCredential and
LoadCredential functions, as well as the
useCachedToken parameter for
Authenticate.twitter. These were simply calling the
saveRDS and readRDS functions and not
performing any additional processing. Using saveRDS and
readRDS directly to save and load an
Authenticate credential object to file is simpler.cleanText parameter works in
Create.actor.reddit so that it is more permissive.
Addresses encoding issues with apostrophes and pound symbols and removes
unicode characters not permitted by the XML 1.0 standard as used in
graphml files. This is best effort and does not resolve all
reddit text encoding issues.Collect.twitter summary information that includes
the earliest (min) and latest (max) tweet status_id
collected with timestamp. The status_id values can be used
to frame subsequent collections as since_id or
max_id parameter values. If the until date
parameter was used the timestamp can also be used as a quick
confirmation.Collect method.Create.actor.reddit that were incorrectly
creating edges between top-level commentors and thread authors from
different threads. These bugs were only observable in when collecting
multiple reddit threads.reddit collection. Removed the
progress bar and added a table of results summarising the number of
comments collected for each thread.twitter collection output the users
twitter API reset time.Create.actor.twitter and
Create.bimodal.twitter in which the vertices dataframe
provided to the graph_from_data_frame function as a
contained duplicate names raising an error.roxygen documentation and examples
for all package functions.Authenticate, Collect and
Create S3 methods to implement function routing based on
object class names.pkgdown web site for github hosted package
documentation.twitteR twitter collection implementation
with the rtweet package.twitter authentication token can now be cached
in the .twitter_oauth_token file and used for subsequent
twitter API requests without re-authentication. A new
authentication token can be cached by deleting this file and using the
re-using the parameter useCachedToken = TRUE.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.