Hello Kimmo, Yes. I did that and it worked fine -- as far as it goes. But it didn't cover what to do when using the same twitter account on a computer with a different user name -- which is what my question was about.
On Wed, 08-Apr-2020 at 08:55AM +0300, K. Elo wrote: |> 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. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ 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.
