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Accessing data

Functions for accessing TAGS data.

read_tags()
Retrieve a TAGS archive of Twitter statuses and bring into R
pull_tweet_data()
Retrieve the fullest extent of status metadata available from the Twitter API
lookup_many_tweets()
Retrieve the fullest extent of metadata for more than 90,000 statuses

Processing data

Functions related to processing data for subsequent analysis.

process_tweets()
Calculate additional information using status metadata
get_char_tweet_ids()
Get Twitter status ID numbers as character strings
get_upstream_tweets()
Collect upstream statuses and add to dataset
get_url_domain()
Find the domain name of URLs, even shortened URLs

Social network analysis

Functions related to carrying out social network analysis.

filter_by_tweet_type()
Filter a Twitter dataset to only include statuses of a particular type
create_edgelist()
Create an edgelist where senders and receivers are defined by different types of Twitter interactions
add_users_data()
Retrieve user information for everyone in an edgelist