{tweetcheck} is a simple R wrapper for the twitter-text JavaScript library which is made available by Twitter under the Apache 2.0 license. This library allows easy parsing of tweet text as well as autolinking and extraction of mentions.
# Install from CRAN using:
install.packages("tweetcheck")
# Install from GitHub using:
remotes::install_github("wurli/tweetcheck")
library(tweetcheck)
tweets <- c(
"This is a first tweet. Simple!",
"This tweet tags @hadleywickham and @_wurli",
"This tweet links {rtweet}: https://docs.ropensci.org/rtweet/",
"Emojis take up two characters 😄😄😄",
"Some may have hashtags or cashtags: #RStats $RSTATS",
strrep("This tweet is way too long! ", 20)
)
tweet_info(tweets)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 8
#> tweet weigh…¹ is_va…² permi…³ valid…⁴ valid…⁵ displ…⁶ displ…⁷
#> <chr> <int> <lgl> <dbl> <int> <int> <int> <int>
#> 1 "This is a first twee… 30 TRUE 0.107 1 30 1 30
#> 2 "This tweet tags @had… 42 TRUE 0.15 1 42 1 42
#> 3 "This tweet links {rt… 50 TRUE 0.178 1 60 1 60
#> 4 "Emojis take up two c… 36 TRUE 0.128 1 36 1 36
#> 5 "Some may have hashta… 51 TRUE 0.182 1 51 1 51
#> 6 "This tweet is way to… 560 FALSE 2 1 280 1 560
#> # … with abbreviated variable names ¹weighted_length, ²is_valid, ³permillage,
#> # ⁴valid_range_start, ⁵valid_range_end, ⁶display_range_start,
#> # ⁷display_range_end
tweet_permillage()
, tweet_weighted_length()
, tweet_is_valid()
,
tweet_valid_range_start()
, tweet_valid_range_end()
,
tweet_display_range_start()
, and tweet_display_range_end()
are
convenience functions which can be used to extract any of the above
columns individually.
tweet_get_mentions(tweets)
#> [[1]]
#> character(0)
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "hadleywickham" "_wurli"
#>
#> [[3]]
#> character(0)
#>
#> [[4]]
#> character(0)
#>
#> [[5]]
#> character(0)
#>
#> [[6]]
#> character(0)
tweet_autolink(tweets)
#> [1] "This is a first tweet. Simple!"
#> [2] "This tweet tags @<a class=\"tweet-url username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/hadleywickham\" data-screen-name=\"hadleywickham\" rel=\"nofollow\">hadleywickham</a> and @<a class=\"tweet-url username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/_wurli\" data-screen-name=\"_wurli\" rel=\"nofollow\">_wurli</a>"
#> [3] "This tweet links {rtweet}: <a href=\"https://docs.ropensci.org/rtweet/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://docs.ropensci.org/rtweet/</a>"
#> [4] "Emojis take up two characters 😄😄😄"
#> [5] "Some may have hashtags or cashtags: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RStats\" title=\"#RStats\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow\">#RStats</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%24RSTATS\" title=\"$RSTATS\" class=\"tweet-url cashtag\" rel=\"nofollow\">$RSTATS</a>"
#> [6] "This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! This tweet is way too long! "
{rtweet} is a package which allows easy interaction with the Twitter API for actions such as posting or downloading of tweets. {V8} is a package which allows JavaScript code to be called from R and is used by {tweetcheck}.
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