[R] TWITTER API environment variables

Patrick Connolly
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:02:06 -0000

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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