saotd (version 0.2.0)

tweet_acquire: Acquire Twitter Tweets

Description

Function will enable a user to access the Twitter API throught the [Twitter Developers Account](https://dev.twitter.com/) site. Once a user has a Twitter developers account and has recieved their individual consumer key, consumer secret key, access token, and access secret they can acquire Tweets based on a list of hashtags and a requested number of entires per hashtag.

Usage

tweet_acquire(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret,
  HT, num_tweets, file_name, distinct = TRUE)

Arguments

consumer_key

Twitter Application management consumer key.

consumer_secret

Twitter Application management consumer secret key.

access_token

Twitter Application management access token.

access_secret

Twitter Application management access secret key.

HT

A single hashtag or a list of hashtags the user has specified.

num_tweets

Number of Tweets to be acquired per each hashtag.

file_name

User desired output .RData file name.

distinct

Logical. If distinct = TRUE, the function removes multiple Tweets that originate from the same Twitter id at the exact same time.

Value

A DataFrame.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
consumer_key <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
consumer_secret <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
access_token <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
access_secret <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

test_tweets <- file.path(tempdir(), "test_tweets.RData")

hashtags <- c("#job", "#Friday", "#fail", "#icecream", "#random", "#kitten", "#airline")

tweet_acquire(consumer_key = consumer_key, 
              consumer_secret = consumer_secret, 
              access_token = access_token, 
              access_secret = access_secret, 
              HT = hashtags, 
              num_tweets = 10, 
              file_name = test_tweets,
              distinct = TRUE)
        
load(test_tweets)
# }