getUserInfo: Get Information about a User

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

Description

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

Usage

getUserInfo(user_id, access_token)

Arguments

user_id	A numeric user ID. 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
first_name	User's first name
last_name	User's last name
sex	User's sex (available options: female, male)
screen_name	User's screen name
bdate	User's birth date
city	City code the user specified in the "Contacts" section
country	Country code the user specified in the "Contacts" section
relation	User'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

Author(s)

Denis Stukal [e-mail]

References

VK API Methods: Users (https://vk.com/dev/users.get)

Examples

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

## End(Not run)

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