How to search Twitter with rtweet and R
Twitter is a great source of news about R — especially during conferences like useR! and RStudio Conference. And thanks to R and the rtweet package, you can build your own tool to download tweets for easy searching, sorting, and filtering. Let’s take a look, step by step.
First you want to install any of the rtweet project’s packages you don’t already have: rtweet, reactable, glue, stringr, httpuv, and dplyr. Then to start, load rtweet and dplyr.