Twitter data Mining in R

Twittermining.R

#install required packages
install.packages("twitteR")
install.packages("RCurl")
install.packages("httr")
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("r-lib/httr")

#Load necessary packages
library(twitteR)
library(RCurl)
library(base64enc)

#Go to http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new to create an app and get values
# for these credentials, which you'll need to provide in place of these
# empty string values that are defined as placeholders.
# See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/oauth for more information 
# on Twitter's OAuth implementation.
Access_token <-  ""
Access_token_secret <-  ""
consumer_key <-  ""
consumer_secret <-  ""

#Calling twitteR OAuth function
setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key,consumer_secret,Access_token,Access_token_secret)

#Extracting Trends using getTrends Function
KE_WOE_ID = 23424863
current_trends  <-  getTrends(KE_WOE_ID)
View(current_trends)

#Get Tweets using userTimeline function
tweets <- userTimeline("so and so", 50)

#Get tweets from a certain trending topic
IEBC_Tweets <- searchTwitter("IEBC", n=100, lang = "en")

#convert the tweets into a df
tweets.df <-twListToDF(IEBC_Tweets) 
dim(tweets.df)