R help - Nov 2013 - Problem while using "searchTwitter" function in TwitteR package

Hi,

I am data mining from twitter using the twitteR package but I am facing a
problem mining statuses. A lot of times the status does not return the
desired number of statuses but returns only a specific number. Also, this
number keeps on varying for exactly the same arguments ( No, its not that
more statuses were put up during that time), it even decreases sometimes.
Is there some logic to how this works ?
This is the warning I am getting : "In
doRppAPICall("search/tweets", n,
params = params, retryOnRateLimit = retryOnRateLimit,  :
  3000 tweets were requested but the API can only return 299"

Thanks for the help in advance,
Ameek Singh

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