extraire: A function to get the long urls in tweets

In CasAndreu/ccceR: Tools for analysis of social media data

Description

This function takes the output of the getURL() function of the package "RCurl" and it returns the long_url of given shortened urls. The credit for this function should be given to Arthur Charpentier, who wrote this post: http://www.r-bloggers.com/r-twitter-and-urls/

Usage

extraire(entree, motif)

Arguments

entree	The word that indicates where the long_url starts
motif	The word that indicates where the long_url ends

Examples

 ## Not run: 
res <- try(extraire(long_urls,"\r\nlocation: (.*?)\r\nserver"))

## End(Not run)

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