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Remove retweets
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load("code2013.rda") | |
# Find/remove the tweets flagged as retweets | |
is_retweets = which(sapply(code2013, function(x) x$getIsRetweet())) | |
if (length(is_retweets) > 0) { | |
filtered_tweets = code2013[-is_retweets] | |
} else { | |
filtered_tweets = code2013 | |
} | |
statuses = sapply(filtered_tweets, function(x) x$getText()) | |
# Find and remove RT based retweets. This will be overeager but we're not losing many | |
# tweets anyways | |
manual_retweets = grep("[[:space:]]?rt", statuses) | |
if (length(manual_retweets) > 0) { | |
filtered_tweets = filtered_tweets[-manual_retweets] | |
statuses = statuses[-manual_retweets] | |
} |
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