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dsparks / geocoded_Tweets.R
Created December 18, 2012 17:15
Gathering Tweets, geocoding users, and plotting them
doInstall <- TRUE
toInstall <- c("twitteR", "dismo", "maps", "ggplot2")
if(doInstall){install.packages(toInstall, repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")}
lapply(toInstall, library, character.only = TRUE)
searchTerm <- "#rstats"
searchResults <- searchTwitter(searchTerm, n = 1000) # Gather Tweets
tweetFrame <- twListToDF(searchResults) # Convert to a nice dF
userInfo <- lookupUsers(tweetFrame$screenName) # Batch lookup of user info