twitteR (version 0.9.3)

twitteR-defunct: Defunct functions

Description

As of July 2010, Twitter has changed their authentication structure to require OAuth. Until such a time that OAuth authentication is enabled in R and/or this requirement changes, these functions will not work properly.

Usage

initSession(username, password)
dmGet(session = getCurlHandle(), num=20, ...)
dmSent(session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
dmDestroy(dm, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
dmSend(text, user, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
tweet(text, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
updateStatus(text, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
deleteStatus(status, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
taskStatus(expr, to, msg="", session=getCurlHandle())
friendsTimeline(session=getCurlHandle(), ...)
mentions(session=getCurlHandle(), ...)

Arguments

username

Your Twitter screenname

password

Your Twitter password

text

The text of a message to send

user

The user to send a message to, either character or an user object.

dm

The message to delete, an object of class directMessage

session

A session object from initSession

num

The number of direct messages to return

status

An object of class status

expr

An R expression that will be run

to

The user to send a message to, either character or an user object.

msg

An extra message to append to the standard DM

...

Optional arguments to be passed to getURL