twitteR (version 0.1.6)

Rtweets: Retrieve latest R related tweets

Description

This function will look at the #rstats} hashtag and return status updates that are related to R Rtweets(session = getCurlHandle(), num=25, ...) session{ A session object from initSession} num{The number of tweets to return} ...{Items to be passed to getURL}

This is not a full featured search, but simply a hard coded search for the #rstats} tag.

A premade session is typically not going to be necessary, this command can be called without any parameters. However, if a user has access to a protected user's timeline, they will not see any #rstat} activity without using a session object. A list of status objects [object Object] status Rtweets() interface