Hi again, ok, I see. How about repeating the steps described in the tutorial on your second computer instead of cloning the settings from the computer #1? There might be some other settings not correctly copied.
HTH, Kimmo ke, 2020-04-08 kello 19:02 +1200, Patrick Connolly kirjoitti: > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.
