A simple wrapper to tweet straight from your R session.
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Open a widget to send tweets (you’ll need a Twitter token to do that)
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Opens your browser with a text ready to tweet. You need to add a text, and url & via are optional.
devtools::install_github("ColinFay/tweetthat")Using the widget allows you to send images from your computer:
Before using the widget, you should create a Twitter App with read and write permission on apps.twitter.com. Then run :
## whatever name you assigned to your created app
appname <- "myapp"
## api key (example below is not a real key)
key <- "84618490-BpSmqfwIWx6ZkeFDVg6FDZ7LUsMRrzdBPzuc1YT"
## api secret (example below is not a real key)
secret <- "EWXOpTjIpqM8EmHCGHd5xGQKFeCsUfeqWk5NgPtLIRi"
## create token named "twitter_token"
twitter_token <- rtweet::create_token(
app = appname,
consumer_key = key,
consumer_secret = secret)(taken from the rtweet vignette)
You can check the .Renviron variable is set well with:
usethis::edit_r_environ()There should be a TWITTER_PAT= var here, with a link to a .Rds.
The function doesn’t need a Twitter token, but you can’t send image from your computer.
library(tweetthat)
tweet_that(text = "I wrote this tweet in RStudio, how cool is that?")tweet_that(text = "This website is awesome", url = "http://colinfay.me")tweet_that(text = "Colin's Twitter is full of advices", via = "@_colinfay")tweet_that(text = "#RStats — Colin's website is cool", url = "http://colinfay.me", via = "@_colinfay")