update_database: Update the local twitter database

In joebrew/vilaweb: Reproducible data analysis for www.vilaweb.cat

Description

Update the local twitter database, which should have been set up via inst/rmd/set_up_database/set_up_database.R

Usage

update_database(
  people = NULL,
  get_new = FALSE,
  delete_duplicates = TRUE,
  only_new_people = FALSE,
  after = "2000-01-01",
  until = as.character(Sys.Date() + 1),
  force_old = FALSE,
  refetch = FALSE,
  refetch_since = NULL
)

Arguments

people	A character vector of twitter accounts. If null, will do existing people
get_new	Get new data. If TRUE, will fetch all tweets again.
delete_duplicates	If TRUE, will export the data to R, remove duplicates, then overwrite the db
only_new_people	Whether to only fetch people who are NOT yet in the database (ie, automatically filters the people argument)
after	The date after which tweets should be retrieved. Default to 2000-01-01
until	The date until which tweets will be retrieved
force_old	Set to TRUE if retrieving tweets older than what is already in the database (only for exceptional cases)
refetch	Set to TRUE to delete previous entries in the database for the person in question and rescrape
refetch_since	Whether to only refetch since a certain date (ie, delete all entries until that date). Only applicable if refetch is true

Value

A set up database

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