twitter_token: function doing twitter oauth authentication

In petermeissner/twitterlight: A lightweight, function oriented R interface to the Twitter API

Description

function doing twitter oauth authentication

Usage

twitter_token(key = "", secret = "", token = "", token_secret = "")

Arguments

key	optional key argument; if left as is twitter_token() will first look if twitterlight_key was set before in the session by set_twitter_credetnials and thereafter check if it can find the values in an .Renviron file via sys.getenv("twitterlight_key")
secret	same as key parameter except function will search for twitterlight_secret
token	for headless mode, in normal mode token will be fetched and permissions checked interactively by user; if interaction is impossible token can be supplied manually
token_secret	for headless mode, in normal mode token will be fetched and permissions checked interactively by user; if interaction is impossible token can be supplied manually

Value

twitter token used for API interaction by package functions

internal usage: httr::GET(... httr::config( token = twitter_token(key, secret) ) ) @seealso twl_set_credentials, Sys.getenv, oauth_app, oauth1.0_token

petermeissner/twitterlight documentation built on May 25, 2019, 2:08 a.m.