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ahs85
ahs85

Reputation: 115

Get tweet-count via twitteR-package


I'm having some trouble with R and the twitteR-package.
My aim is to get the total tweet from a given user. The user-class offers a statusesCount-field. I don't know how to get the value from this field.
The vignette only offers examples with tweets from public timelines and even there I can't get the total counts.

The example in the vignette looks like this (p. 5):
sapply(publicTimeline(), function(x) x$getStatusSource())

I can extract even the ScreenName or the user-ID:
sapply(publicTimeline(), function(x) x$getScreenName())
sapply(publicTimeline(), function(x) x$getID())

In fact, the publicTimeline-function catches random users and I'd like to have given users.

Anyone can help me?

Regards,
Arne

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1924

Answers (1)

Noah
Noah

Reputation: 2624

You'll want to first getUser for a specific user. Then, you can use str() to understand the structure of that user. The @ symbol is used to access fields in S4 objects.

Example:

> library(twitteR)
> user <- getUser("@twitter")
> user@statusesCount
[1] 1087

Upvotes: 4

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