user-class: A container object to model Twitter users

In twitteR: R Based Twitter Client

Description

This class is designed to represent a user on Twitter, modeling information available

Details

The user class is implemented as a reference class. This class was previously implemented as an S4 class, and for backward compatibility purposes the old S4 accessor methods have been left in, although new code should not be written with these. An instance of a generator for this class is provided as a convenience to the user as it is configured to handle most standard cases. To access this generator, user the object userFactory. Accessor set & get methods are provided for every field using reference class $accessors() methodology (see setRefClass for more details). As an example, the screenName field could be accessed using object$getScreenName and object$setScreenName.

The constructor of this object assumes that the user is passing in a JSON encoded Twitter user. It is also possible to directly pass in the arguments.

Fields

name:

Name of the user

screenName:

Screen name of the user

id:

ID value for this user

lastStatus:

Last status update for the user

description:

User's description

statusesCount:

Number of status updates this user has had

followersCount:

Number of followers for this user

favoritesCount:

Number of favorites for this user

friendsCount:

Number of followees for this user

url:

A URL associated with this user

created:

When this user was created

protected:

Whether or not this user is protected

verified:

Whether or not this user is verified

location:

Location of the user

listedCount:

The number of times this user appears in public lists

followRequestSent:

If authenticated via OAuth, will be TRUE if you've sent a friend request to this user

profileImageUrl:

URL of the user's profile image, if one exists

Methods

getFollowerIDs(n=NULL, ...):

Will return a vector of twitter user IDs representing followers of this user, up to a maximum of n values. If n is NULL, all followers will be returned

getFollowers(n=NULL, ...):

Will return a list of user objects representing followers of this user, up to a maximum of n values. If n is NULL, all followers will be returned

getFriendIDs(n=NULL, ...):

Will return a vector of twitter user IDs representing users this user follows, up to a maximum of n values. If n is NULL, all friends will be returned

getFriends(n=NULL, ...):

Will return a list of user objects representing users this user follows, up to a maximum of n values. If n is NULL, all friendss will be returned

toDataFrame(row.names=NULL, optional=FALSE):

Converts this into a one row data.frame, with each field except for lastStatus representing a column. This can also be accomplished by the S4 style as.data.frame(objectName).

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

See Also

status, setRefClass

Examples

   ## This example is run, but likely not how you want to do things
   us <- userFactory$new(screenName="test", name="Joe Smith")
   us$getScreenName()
   us$getName()

   ## Not run: 
     ## Assume 'json' is the return from a Twitter call
     us <- userFactory$new(json)
     us$getScreenName()
   
## End(Not run)

twitteR documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:46 a.m.