smappR (version 0.5)

formatTwDate: Converts from Twitter date format to R date format

Description

Converts from Twitter date format to R date format

Usage

formatTwDate(datestring, format = "datetime")

Arguments

datestring

Date string in Twitter format

output

Either "date", for Date format; or "datetime" for POSIX.

Examples

## Not run: 
# ## connect to the Mongo database
#  mongo <- mongo.create("SMAPP_HOST:PORT", db="DATABASE")
#  mongo.authenticate(mongo, username="USERNAME", password="PASSWORD", db="DATABASE")
#  set <- "DATABASE.COLLECTION"
# 
# ## extract all tweets that mention 'occupygezi' and do a quick plot
#  tweets <- extract.tweets(set, string="occupygezi", fields="created_at")
# 
# ## convert dates to R format
#  dates <- formatTwDate(tweets$created_at, format="date")
# 
# ## see number of tweets per day
#  table(dates)
# ## End(Not run)