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a package is intended to provide access to the Twitter API within `R` programming language

a package is intended to provide access to the Twitter API within R programming language. This package is intended to be combined with the ROAuth package as as of March 2013 the Twitter API requires the use of OAuth authentication.

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R: How to save lists into csv?

So im actually working on twitteR and i need a way to store my tweets into a csv file and pull it out when i need it . This is due to the idea i want to compile the tweets i collect and then apply them to my algorithms to do the calculations…
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JSON error using twitteR caused by RCurl proxy

I am trying to use twitteR's searchTwitter() function with a curl proxy, but I'm getting a JSON-related error. I see that a lot of people have gotten this same JSON error. But I believe the cause of mine is different, so I will try to be specific…
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Non-character argument in R

While using twitteR package for R, I am getting the following error Error in strsplit(response, "&") : non-character argument twitter when trying to send my oauth credentials using this code cred <- OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,…
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TwitteR: 'searchTwitter' only returns a small set of tweets

I am trying to retrieve ~3000 tweets with keyword "nba" or hashtag "#nba" using twitteR function 'searchTwitter' but it only returns 299 tweets for "nba" and 398 tweets for "#nba" between 2013-01-01 and 2014-02-25. I am really confused, is this…
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Using R for Creating a complete twitter history

Since twitter decided to index all tweets since 2006 I am trying to use the twitteR package for R to create a complete user's tweet history. In the case below I am trying to create this for Jack Dorsey. I tried this with myself (short history on…
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R twitteR package, get followers despite limit

I've been playing around with the R twitteR package and haven't figured out how to implement a system to collect more than the maximum per hour # of followers for a twitter user. I know the plan should be to collect the maximum, wait X amount of…
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Markdown with Shiny not working on Mac. Error: path for html_dependency not provided Execution halted

I'm new to Shiny and I was just trying to see what's the result gonna look like and test out different data sets. I entered the code provided by Diego Lescano, you can find the full script here,…
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Getting data from twitter with R?

I am using R 3.1.3 on Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) and tm_0.6-2 version of package Here is my codes following:…
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R and twitteR - userTimeline() function not returning the number of tweets requested

Why can't I get the number of tweets I request when I use the userTimeline() function in the twitteR package ? I now the limit request for a user timeline is 3200 tweets but I just get about 10% of that... Here are two examples : In this example…
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retweeting using twitteR

Is it possible to retweet a status using the twitteR package (or just R in general)? For example, if I import a bunch of tweets and I want to retweet one of them: library(twitteR) # load ROAuth handshake (authorization to interact with Twitter) and…
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Cannot get the PIN to connect with twitter

library(RCurl) library(ROAuth) consumerKey = "###" reqURL = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token" accessURL = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token" authURL = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize" …
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Response token from the url that gives a status code

Using "rtweet" rPackage. Is there a way to get the response status of a query while fetching tweets from the twitter API? Something similar to the following : library(httr) github_api <- function(path) { url <- modify_url("https://api.github.com",…
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Tweets returned by twitteR are shortened

I am using the twitteR package for R to collect some tweets. However, I noticed that the Tweet text returned by the searchTwitter function is not the complete tweet text, but abridged to equal exactly 140 characters with the rest of the text…
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Using Twitter API in R

I am using the twitter api in R and trying to perform some analysis. I have a set of zip codes(lat/long) and I want to fetch all the twitter handles for a particular zip code. Is that possible? Need help on that. Thanks.
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Identifying mention on a comment and populating data frame

I'm trying to get mentions on twitter data like @someone @somebody from a data frame twitter and creating a new data frame with the information of who tweeted and which people they mentioned. Example: tweets <-…
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