formatTwDate: Converts from Twitter date format to R date format

In SMAPPNYU/smappR: Tools for analysis of Twitter data

Description

Converts from Twitter date format to R date format

Usage

formatTwDate(datestring, format = "datetime")

Arguments

datestring	Date string in Twitter format
output	Either "date", for Date format; or "datetime" for POSIX.

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## connect to the Mongo database
 mongo <- mongo.create("SMAPP_HOST:PORT", db="DATABASE")
 mongo.authenticate(mongo, username="USERNAME", password="PASSWORD", db="DATABASE")
 set <- "DATABASE.COLLECTION"

## extract all tweets that mention 'occupygezi' and do a quick plot
 tweets <- extract.tweets(set, string="occupygezi", fields="created_at")

## convert dates to R format
 dates <- formatTwDate(tweets$created_at, format="date")

## see number of tweets per day
 table(dates)

## End(Not run)

SMAPPNYU/smappR documentation built on May 9, 2019, 11:19 a.m.