Hi All,

I'm attempting my first go with RStudio to extract some twitter data. I'm still unsure whether my syntax is correct. Maybe someone can tell me what is going wrong.

install.packages("twitteR", repos = 'http://cran.us.r-project.org')
api_key<-"xxxxxx"api_secret<-"xxxxxx"token<-"xxxxxx"token_secret<-"xxxxxx"
setup_twitter_oauth(api_key,api_secret,token,token_secret)
searchTwitter('brecon', n = 10, lang = "en")

The resulting error:-

Error in setup_twitter_oauth(api_key, api_secret, token, token_secret) :
could not find function "setup_twitter_oauth"

You forgot to load the library after installing it

library(twitteR)

Hi,

I'm still not getting a result from this script, not sure why?

install.packages("twitteR", repos = 'http://cran.us.r-project.org')
library(twitteR)
api_key<-"xxxxxx"<-api_secret<-"xxxxxx"<-token<-"xxxxxx"<-token_secret<-"xxxxxx"
setup_twitter_oauth(api_key,api_secret,token,token_secret)
searchTwitter('brecon', n = 10, lang = "en")

New error:-

Error in setup_twitter_oauth(api_key, api_secret, token, token_secret) :
could not find function "setup_twitter_oauth"

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