Re: [R] TWITTER API environment variables

2020-04-08 Thread Patrick Connolly
Apart from allowing the twitter app access, I didn't do anything to adjust the settings other than editing the ~/.Renviron file which set up the environment variable/s. It appears to me that they are appropriate since they work if I use R from the bash prompt or Rstudio. The problem is apparan

Re: [R] TWITTER API environment variables

2020-04-08 Thread K. Elo
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 Kim

Re: [R] TWITTER API environment variables

2020-04-08 Thread Patrick Connolly
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

Re: [R] TWITTER API environment variables

2020-04-07 Thread K. Elo
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 o

[R] TWITTER API environment variables

2020-04-07 Thread Patrick Connolly
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_ (where is the name of the user in block letters). That worked fine