searchTwitter: Search twitter

Description

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

Usage

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

Arguments

searchString

Search query to issue to twitter

The maximum number of tweets to return

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 up until 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

sinceID

If not NULL, returns tweets with IDs greater (ie newer) than the specified ID

...

Optional arguments to be passed to getURL

Details

These commands will return any authorized 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. Authorized tweets are public tweets as well as those protected tweets that are available to the user after authenticating via registerTwitterOAuth.

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'.

For the sinceID argument, if the requested ID value is older than the oldest available tweets, the API will return tweets starting from the oldest ID available. The Rtweets function is a wrapper around searchTwitter which hardcodes in a search for #rstats}. A list of status objects [object Object] status, registerTwitterOAuth 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