timelines {twitteR}

Functions to view Twitter timelines

Description

These functions will allow you to retrieve various timelines within the Twitter universe

Usage

userTimeline(user, n=20, maxID=NULL, sinceID=NULL, includeRts=FALSE, 
  excludeReplies=FALSE, ...)
homeTimeline(n=25, maxID=NULL, sinceID=NULL, ...)
mentions(n=25, maxID=NULL, sinceID=NULL, ...)
retweetsOfMe(n=25, maxID=NULL, sinceID=NULL, ...)

Arguments

user

The Twitter user to detail, can be character or an user object.

n

Number of tweets to retrieve, up to a maximum of 3200

maxID

Maximum ID to search for

sinceID

Minimum (not inclusive) ID to search for

includeRts

If FALSE any native retweets (not old style RT retweets) will be stripped from the results

excludeReplies

if TRUE any replies are stripped from the results

...

Optional arguments to be passed to GET

Value

A list of status objects

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

See Also

getUser, status

Examples

  ## Not run: 
        ut <- userTimeline('barackobama', n=100)
  
## End(Not run)