Comments on: Twitter from R… Sure, why not!

By: JD Long

JD Long — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:22:26 +0000

E, Twitter now requires OAuth which is not easy at all to implement in a system like R. I’ve been trying to get someone smarter than me to give this some thought but have not come up with anything yet. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3391460/oauth-access-for-r

By: e

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:44:19 +0000

realize this is a late post. this sounds like a really nice feature. tried to implement this tonight, and it didn’t work. was wondering if things have changed on the twitter page that requires some new tweaks? Thanks for sharing this!!

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:41:38 +0000

Correction: After “Tiny example:”, it is supposed be:

> TheSum if (TheSum != 100) tweet(’O-oh! @Ehva must look for the needle in the haystack’) else tweet(’Happiness!’)

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:37:00 +0000

If you feel an urge to, you can automatically express your feelings on Twitter in this way, based on your results in R…

Tiny example:

> TheSum if (TheSum != 100) tweet(’O-oh! @Ehva must look for the needle in the haystack’) else tweet(’Happiness!’)

http://twitter.com/Ehva/statuses/2220116077

had I had the data
> TheSum <- 50+50 # No2
the tweet would express another feeling

Note: I name the function “tweet” instead of “update”.

@Ehva

(PS: Terribly sorry about those previous comments with missing lines!)

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:31:51 +0000

If you feel an urge to, you can automatically express your feelings on Twitter in this way, based on your results in R…

Tiny example:
> TheSum if (TheSum != 100) tweet(’O-oh! @Ehva must look for the needle in the haystack’) else tweet(’Happiness!’)

http://twitter.com/Ehva/statuses/2220116077

had I had the data
> TheSum <- 50+50 #No2
the tweet would express another feeling

Note: I name the function “tweet” instead of “update”.

@Ehva

(PS: Terribly sorry about those previous comments with missing lines!)

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:00:03 +0000

If you feel an urge to, you can automatically express your feelings on Twitter in this way, based on your results in R…

Tiny example:
> TheSum if (TheSum != 100) tweet(’O-oh! @Ehva must look for the needle in the haystack’) else tweet(’Happiness!’)

http://twitter.com/Ehva/statuses/2220116077

had I had the data
> TheSum <- 67+16+17 # Set4 Variable2
the tweet would express another feeling

Note: I name the function “tweet” instead of “update”.

@Ehva

(PS: Terribly sorry about those previous comments with missing lines!)

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:52:30 +0000

If you feel an urge to, you can automatically express your feelings on Twitter in this way, based on your results in R…

Tiny example:
> TheSum if (TheSum != 100) tweet(’O-oh! @Ehva must look for the needle in the haystack’) else tweet(’Happiness!’)

http://twitter.com/Ehva/statuses/2220116077

had I had the data
> TheSum <- 67+16+17 # Set4 Variable2
the tweet would express another feeling

Note: I name the function “tweet” instead of “update”.

@Ehva

PS: Sorry, I had to post again, there were errors in the first comment.

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:42:43 +0000

If you feel an urge to, you can automatically express your feelings on Twitter in this way, based on your results in R.

Tiny example:
> TheSum if (TheSum != 100) tweet(‘O-oh! @Ehva must look for the needle in the haystack’) else tweet(‘Happiness!’)

http://twitter.com/Ehva/statuses/2220116077

if I had this, the tweet would be:
> TheSum <- 67+16+17 # Set4 Variable2

Note: I name the function “tweet” instead of “update”.

@Ehva

By: J

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:23:58 +0000

I’m not sure why the trackbackometer didn’t pick this up, but Dave over at Revolutions blogged about this as well: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/06/tweeting-from-r.html

yeah, I hate formatting links in comments. damn

By: J

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:21:01 +0000

jebyrnes, I banged around for an hour or two trying to get the “posted from R” (actually I wanted to make it say “Posted from R, Bitches” because I am rude like that) to appear instead of “posted from web” There are lots of examples online of how to set the “source” parameter so that the source application text is changed. Only after wasting hours did I discover that the twitterfuckers have discontinued that feature. I found that tidbit in the FAQ: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ here’s the quote:

“How do I get “from [MyApp]” appended to updates sent from my API application?

We now recommend developers use OAuth to perform authentication with the API. When applications use OAuth, Twitter automatically knows the source of status updates. We are therefore able to append source attribution (from “[MyApp]“) to tweets. If you would like tweets from your application to recieve a source parameter, please register an application and implement OAuth authentication. We will automatically include your application as the source for any tweets sent from your application.

We originally allowed applications to create a source paramter for non-OAuth use but that has been discontinued. Applications pre-OAuth source parameters will remain active, but new registrations are no longer accepted.”

I was lead astray since there are so many examples online that use the “source” tag. Grrrrrr.