Hi! Have you already read this:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rtweet/vignettes/auth.html I think they explain rather well how to use Twitter tokens with rtweet... HTH, Kimmo ke, 2020-04-08 kello 17:19 +1200, Patrick Connolly kirjoitti: > I'm using the rtweet package which makes use of the Twitter API which > requires a token alluded to by an environment variable. > > That environment variable is automatically set up from the Twitter > web > site and takes the name TWITTER_<username> (where <username> is the > name of the user in block letters). That worked fine on my work > computer where my username is 'work'. When I copied that working > directory to my home computer, the environment variable became > TWITTER_HOME but the rtweet package was looking for > TWITTER_WORK. There was no error message: just a null result from the > search_users() function. > > I tried editing the ~/.Renviron entry to > TWITTER_WORK=/home/home/.rtweet_token.rds > > That worked for a short time but soon ceased working. Then I noticed > a new entry had been automatically added to ~/.Renviron > > TWITTER_HOME=/home/home/.rtweet_token1.rds > > So now I had two environment variables which also worked for a short > time. > > Recommendations please. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
