Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication

2015-12-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 December 2015 at 01:18, Tushar Sadhu wrote: | PS : The Screenshots are in the attachments Please don't do that. Place it somewhere on the intertubes and link to it. Thin of the email list as ascii only. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org __

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication

2015-12-07 Thread Tushar Sadhu
Hello everyone! Really sorry for the late reply. So I read and read up as all the answers suggested and here is my response to all of them but before that, I want to establish what I am trying to achieve: The aim is to get a Twitter App that displays n number of tweets about a particular #tag but

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication

2015-11-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I just use and external program: bti [1] and let it handle authentication (there is a set up step). That works beautifully for two cronjobs: CRANberries [2] (which has tweeted thousands of times) and the CRAN Repo Policy changes watcher [3] which tweets whenever the policy document is updated. I

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication

2015-11-25 Thread Jenny Bryan
> On Nov 21, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Peter Meissner wrote: > > Hey, > > I am not sure, that this is the right list for questions that are 'only > mildly' related to package developement. Your question is more about > API/webscraping etc. . > > Maybe someone can point to a better place to post ques

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication

2015-11-23 Thread Robert M. Flight
Tushar, I've created a Twitter App, and then saved the credentials for that app as an object that is part of an R package, using the four pieces of *api key, api secret, token key, token secret* that you get when you create a new app. I've posted a tutorial here: http://rmflight.github.io/posts/20

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Help with making a package for Twitter Authentication

2015-11-23 Thread Peter Meissner
Hey, I am not sure, that this is the right list for questions that are 'only mildly' related to package developement. Your question is more about API/webscraping etc. . Maybe someone can point to a better place to post questions like this?. ... that beeing said ... If I understand your pro