load_twitter_users_json {CooRTweet}

load_twitter_users_json

Description

Very efficient and fast way to load user information from JSON files. Wrapper of the function fload

Usage

load_twitter_users_json(data_dir, query_error_ok = TRUE)

Arguments

data_dir

string that leads to the directory containing JSON files

query_error_ok

(Boolean) stop if query causes an error. Passed on to fload (optional). Default: TRUE

Details

This function is optimized to load user data JSON files that were collected using the academicTwittr Package (Twitter API V2). It uses RcppSimdJson to load the JSON files, which is extremely fast and efficient. It returns the user data as is. The only changes are that the function renames the id of tweets to user_id, and it also deduplicates the data (by user_id). The function expects that the individual JSON files start with user.

Value

a data.table with all users loaded