twitteR (version 0.1.6)

updateStatus: Functions to manipulate Twitter status

Description

These functions can be used to set or delete a user's Twitter status

Usage

tweet(text, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
updateStatus(text, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)
deleteStatus(status, session = getCurlHandle(), ...)

Arguments

text

The text to use for a new status

status

An object of class status

session

An object from initSession

...

Optional arguments to be passed to getURL

Value

• The updateStatus function will return an object of class status.

  The deleteStatus returns TRUE on success and an error if failure occurs.

Details

The tweet and updateStatus functions are the same. To delete a status message, pass in an object of class status, such as from the return value of updateStatus.

See Also

initSession

Examples

sess <- initSession('myUser', 'myPass')
      ns <- updateStatus('this is my new status message', sess)
      ## ooops, we want to remove it!
      deleteStatus(ns)