rossmounce

```{r, echo=FALSE}
knitr::opts_knit$set(upload.fun = knitr::imgur_upload, base.url = NULL)  
```


# and now, all animals and with nested taxonomic ranks

So, a few people liked [this example](https://gist.github.com/dwinter/8d7bde0579daf7466508) 
of using `rentrez` to investigate the taxonomic distribution of sequences in
Genbank. I though it might be fun to extend it a little. Specifically:

rossmounce

#N.B. On *ubuntu RCurl may not install for you off the bat. If so read: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html & sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev 
install.packages(c("RCurl","twitteR","wordcloud","tm","stringr"))
library(twitteR); library(wordcloud); library(tm); library(stringr);

# Search for #mooc tweets
mooctweets <- searchTwitter("#mooc", n=2000)
length(mooctweets) # ends up with 713 as of 03-Jan-13 at 15:42 London time

# make into a data.frame
mooctweets_df <- twListToDF(mooctweets)