rtweet (version 0.3.7)

parse_stream_xl: parse_stream_xl

Description

Returns tweets data frame from large json file

Usage

parse_stream_xl(x, by = 10000)

Arguments

x
Path name for json file
by
Number of Tweets to per chunk. By default this is set to 10,000 tweets.

Value

Data frame of tweets data

Details

Reading and simplifying json files can be very slow. To make things more managable, parse_stream_xl does one chunk of Tweets at a time and then compiles the data into a data frame.