getUserFriendsInfo: Get Information on a User's Friends

In denisStukal/Rvk: Access to VK (VKontakte) API through R

Description

Returns a data.frame with publicly available information about friends of a user.

Usage

getUserFriendsInfo(user_id, access_token)

Arguments

user_id	Numeric ID of the user whose friends are requested. Available from the user's page (see Details).
access_token	Your access token (see ?makeAccessToken).

Details

Many users have their ID as part of their URL address (e.g. https://vk.com/idUSERID, where USERID is a sequence of numbers). In the event users have screen names that do not show their ID in the URL, one can access them by clicking on the user's post (or photo, video, etc.): the post will open with a new URL of the form https://vk.com/SCREENNAME?w=wall-USERID_POSTID). Pass USERID (without the minus sign in front of it) to the function call.

Universities, schools, and jobs are returned as data.frames.

Value

A data.frame with columns (can vary due to information availability):

id	User ID of a friend
first_name	Friend's first name
last_name	Friend's last name
sex	Friend's sex (available options: female, male)
screen_name	Friend's screen name
bdate	Friend's birth date
city	City code the friend specified in the "Contacts" section
country	Country code the friend specified in the "Contacts" section
relation	Friend's relationship status (1 - single; 2 - in a relationship; 3 - engaged; 4 - married; 5 - it's complicated; 6 - actively searching; 7 - in love; 8 - in a civil union; 0 - not specified.)
...	Other fields if available

For more information about fields, see References.

Author(s)

Denis Stukal [e-mail]

References

VK API Methods: Friends (https://vk.com/dev/friends.get)

Examples

## Not run: 
mytoken = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
userid = AAAAAAAA
dat <- getUserFriendsInfo(user_id = userid, access_token = mytoken)
str(dat)

## End(Not run)

denisStukal/Rvk documentation built on June 3, 2019, 5:56 p.m.