Comments on: Who's Tweets Do I Read… Magic R Code Says…

By: JD Long

JD Long — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:11:55 +0000

Very good point about using twitteR! When I wrote this blog post Jeff Gentry had not yet released the twittR package. But now that he has, this blog post is a bit outdated! Here’s a link for others: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html

By: Arne S

Arne S — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:00:49 +0000

You could also consider using the twitteR-package. Has all features build in…

By: ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:10:44 +0000

I’ve been using RApache with good results recently but not much help when it’s not your own server.

By: J

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:34:59 +0000

jebyrnes – @drewconway has some great code that does the same basic thing with Python and Google charts. I busted his balls a little about using a pie chart, but the code is good.

http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=302

-J

By: jebyrnes

jebyrnes — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:04:09 +0000

Hrm. Now, if only one’s webserver was running R, you could turn this into a little webservice via a cgi script. Sadly, there is no R on my webhost.

By: J

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:22:40 +0000

Paolo… this is EXACTLY why I like blogging this type of stuff! You are right. Base graphics works great. But I was having trouble getting the bars right and getting it sorted properly. Thank you for your code example!

By: Paolo

Paolo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:14:37 +0000

Nice code. Why don’t use base graphics?

par(mfrow = c(1, 1), oma = c(0, 4, 0, 2), las=1)
barplot((sort(Tweets)), horiz=T, main=”Who’s Tweets Am I getting?”, col=”cadetblue3″, xlab=”Number of Tweets”)