searchTwitter: Search twitter

Description

This function will issue a search of Twitter based on a supplied search string.

Usage

searchTwitter(searchString, n=25, session = getCurlHandle(), lang=NULL, since=NULL, until=NULL,
              locale=NULL, geocode=NULL, ...)
Rtweets(n=25, session = getCurlHandle(), lang=NULL, since=NULL, ...)

Arguments

searchString

Search query to issue to twitter

The number of tweets to return

session

A session object from initSession

lang

If not NULL, restricts tweets to the given language, given by an ISO 639-1 code

since

If not NULL, restricts tweets to those since the given date. Date is to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD

until

If not NULL, restricts tweets to those since the given date. Date is to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD

locale

If not NULL, will set the locale for the search. As of 03/06/11 only ja is effective, as per the Twitter API

geocode

If not NULL, returns tweets by users located within a given radius of the given latitude/longitude. See Details below for more information

...

Optional arguments to be passed to getURL

Details

These commands will return any non-protected tweets which match the search criteria. Note that there are pagination restrictions as well as other limits on what can be searched, so it is always possible to not retrieve as many tweets as was requested with the n argument.

For the geocode argument, the values are given in the format latitude,longitude,radius, where the radius can have either mi (miles) or km (kilometers) as a unit. For example geocode='37.781157,-122.39720,1mi'.

The Rtweets function is a wrapper around searchTwitter which hardcodes in a search for #rstats}. A premade session will almost never be necessary. A list of status objects [object Object] status searchTwitter("#beer", n=100) Rtweets(n=37)

## Search between two dates searchTwitter('charlie sheen', since='2011-03-01', until='2011-03-02')

## geocoded results searchTwitter('patriots', geocode='42.375,-71.1061111,10mi') interface