https://github.com/gadenbuie/rstats-tweets
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/gadenbuie/rstats-tweets
- Owner: gadenbuie
- Created: 2018-06-04T00:05:13.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-06-06T13:50:38.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-10T02:29:19.873Z (2 months ago)
- Language: R
- Size: 1.68 MB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Tweets from `#rstatsnyc`
A quick fix for your ~~rstudioconf~~ [rstatsnyc][rstatsnyc-conf] FOMO.
Try it online [apps.garrickadenbuie.com/rstatsnyc-2018-tweets](https://apps.garrickadenbuie.com/rstatsnyc-2018-tweets/) or [run it yourself](#run-this-on-your-own-machine)!
[](https://apps.garrickadenbuie.com/rstatsnyc-2018-tweets/)
## Forked from rsconf_tweets()
I forked this from my [RStudio::conf 2018 tweet explorer](https://github.com/gadenbuie/rsconf_tweets).
Maybe this should be a generic conference tweet app?
## Run this on your own machine
~~RStudio::conf 2018~~ rstatsnyc is now over!
This repo now includes the tweets I gathered during the conference, so you do not need to worry about authenticating with Twitter.
You can run the app locally with a simple `shiny::runGitHub("rstatsnyc-2018-tweets", "gadenbuie")`
To run this on your own, you need to create an OAuth twitter token for [`rtweet`][rtweet].
I followed Bob Rudis's ([hrbrmstr](https://twitter.com/hrbrmstr)) excellent guide from [21 Recipes for Mining Twitter with rtweet](https://rud.is/books/21-recipes/).
To have this app recognize your twitter PAT, you have a couple options:
1. You can follow all of the steps in [Using OAuth to Access Twitter APIs](https://rud.is/books/21-recipes/using-oauth-to-access-twitter-apis.html),
2. You can save your `twitter_token` to `rtweet.rds` in the app directory
3. You can code up another alternative by setting `.TWITTER_PAT` in a file called `twitter_secrets.R`.
(The first one is the best answer.)
### Required packages
I used the following packages to make this, all of which can all be installed from CRAN:
```r
packages = c("shiny", "rtweet", "dplyr", "stringr",
"purrr", "httr", "DT", "shinythemes",
"glue", "simpleCache")
install.packages(packages)
```
## How it works
I used a simple twitter search for anything tagged or related to ~~`rstudioconf`~~ `rstatsnyc`.
Ininitally I was just looking at anything tagged `#rstudioconf`, but I borrowed the search terms from [Michael Kearney](https://github.com/mkearney/rstudioconf_tweets).
```r
rstudioconf <- c("rstudioconf", "rstudio::conf",
"rstudioconference", "rstudioconference18",
"rstudioconference2018", "rstudio18",
"rstudioconf18", "rstudioconf2018",
"rstudio::conf18", "rstudio::conf2018")
```
The app is set to pull in new tweets if the app was last loaded more than 15 minutes ago.
To get new tweets, just reload!
Check out [`init.r`](init.R) for more details.
## Other rstudio::conf twitter fun
[\@kearneymw](https://twitter.com/kearneymw) posted a script that collects tweets and makes awesome plots at
[rstatsnyc-conf]: https://www.rstats.nyc/
[rtweet]: http://rtweet.info/