[R] TWITTER API environment variables

K. Elo
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:32:04 -0000

Hi again,

ok, I see. How about repeating the steps described in the tutorial on
your second computer instead of cloning the settings from the computer
#1? There might be some other settings not correctly copied.

HTH,
Kimmo

ke, 2020-04-08 kello 19:02 +1200, Patrick Connolly
kirjoitti:
> Hello Kimmo,
>
> Yes.  I did that and it worked fine -- as far as it goes.  But it
> didn't cover what to do when using the same twitter account on a
> computer with a different user name -- which is what my question was
> about.
>
>
> On Wed, 08-Apr-2020 at 08:55AM +0300, K. Elo wrote:
>
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Have you already read this:
> > >
> > >
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rtweet/vignettes/auth.html
> > >
> > > I think they explain rather well how to use Twitter tokens with
> > > rtweet...
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Kimmo
> > >
> > > ke, 2020-04-08 kello 17:19 +1200, Patrick Connolly kirjoitti:
> > > > I'm using the rtweet package which makes use of the
Twitter API
> > > > which
> > > > requires a token alluded to by an environment variable.
> > > >
> > > > That environment variable is automatically set up from the
> > > > Twitter
> > > > web
> > > > site and takes the name TWITTER_<username> (where
<username> is
> > > > the
> > > > name of the user in block letters).  That worked fine on my
> > > > work
> > > > computer where my username is 'work'.  When I copied
that
> > > > working
> > > > directory to my home computer, the environment variable
became
> > > > TWITTER_HOME but the rtweet package was looking for
> > > > TWITTER_WORK. There was no error message: just a null result
> > > > from the
> > > > search_users() function.
> > > >
> > > > I tried editing the ~/.Renviron entry to
> > > > TWITTER_WORK=/home/home/.rtweet_token.rds
> > > >
> > > > That worked for a short time but soon ceased working.  Then
I
> > > > noticed
> > > > a new entry had been automatically added to ~/.Renviron
> > > >
> > > > TWITTER_HOME=/home/home/.rtweet_token1.rds
> > > >
> > > > So now I had two environment variables which also worked for
a
> > > > short
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > Recommendations please.
> > > >
> > >
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