Comments on: Visualising Twitter User Timeline Activity in R

By: Stefania Spina (@sspina)

Stefania Spina (@sspina) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:13:23 +0000

Really nice. I only have a problem: in The colored plot I can’t see blue dots (I only have green and red, even using your same Twitter timeline). What can I do?

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By: isomorphismes

isomorphismes — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:26:26 +0000

Looks great.

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:19:12 +0000

@sergio The Twitter search API is quite limited in what you can do with it. If you know in advance what Twitter accounts/search terms you want to probe, you can always set up an archiver (eg ThinkUpApp, or Martin Hawksey’s google spreadsheets Twitter archiver http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/ ).

By: Sergio

Sergio — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:28:47 +0000

Hey! Nice graphs!

Suppose you want R to retrive more than 3600 tweets, in order to analyze a given period of time (a month or more). Do you know how can I achieve this?

Thank you in advance.

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:57:37 +0000

@jack If you instal the twitteR package from CRAN, all you need to do then is:

require(twitteR)
username=’TWITTERUSERNAME’
usertimeline=userTimeline(username,n=3200)
usertimeline.df=twListToDF(usertimeline)

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:08:19 +0000

I know this is probably a stupid question, but I am very new to R and do not have much experience with programming languages. How do you actually import someone’s twitter into R?

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By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:40:17 +0000

I’m a complete novice with this too – the calendarheatmap is code i found on the web and I haven’t really looked to see how it works (or doesn’t…). If there’s a problem with it, it may be worth following the link to the original author and asking them…