Authenticate

<code>Authenticate</code> creates a <code>credential</code> object that enables R to make authenticated calls to 
social media APIs. A <code>credential</code> object is a S3 object containing authentication related information such as an
access token or key, and a class name identifying the social media that grants authentication. <code>Authenticate</code> is
the first step of the <code>Authenticate</code>, <code>Collect</code> and <code>Create</code> workflow.
Refer to <code>Authenticate.twitter</code>, <code>Authenticate.youtube</code> and 
<code>Authenticate.reddit</code> for parameters and usage.

A suite of tools for collecting and constructing networks from social media data.
Provides easy-to-use functions for collecting data across popular platforms (Twitter, YouTube
and Reddit) and generating different types of networks for analysis.

Bryan Gertzel

vosonSML

Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for
Analysis

Authenticate function

<dl><dt>socialmedia</dt>
<dd>Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate with. Supported social media
are <code>"twitter"</code>, <code>"youtube"</code> and <code>"reddit"</code>.</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>Optional parameters to pass to functions providied by supporting R packages that are used for social media 
API access.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Create a credential object to access social media APIs — Authenticate

<dl>

<dt>socialmedia</dt>
<dd>Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate with. Supported social media
are <code>"twitter"</code>, <code>"youtube"</code> and <code>"reddit"</code>.</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>Optional parameters to pass to functions providied by supporting R packages that are used for social media 
API access.</dd>

</dl>

Authenticate: Create a credential object to access social media APIs

Description

Usage

Arguments