Re: [ESS] TWITTER API environment variables
G'day Ista,
Thanks for setting me straight on that. I was misled by the fact that
my username on this machine is pat. Something led me to believe that
the twitter environment would be TWITTER_WORK but I don't have remote
access to check (and be disabused of that notion).
In any case, the problem seems to have vanished. I'm a bit
uncomfortable not understanding why the problem arose and disappeared
with no error message. I've wasted hours on this issue.
Best
Patrick
On Thu, 09-Apr-2020 at 10:32AM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote:
|> Hi Patrick,
|>
|> Are you sure you've diagnosed the issue correctly? From what I can see
|> the name of the environment variable is always TWITTER_PAT, at least
|> in the current rtweet release (0.7.0). get_tokens calls twitter_pat
|> (https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/blob/v0.7.0/R/tokens.R#L120) and
|> twitter_pat hard-codes TWITTER_PAT
|> (https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/blob/v0.7.0/R/tokens.R#L371). In
|> short I don't see anything suggesting that the name of the environment
|> variable includes a user name at all.
|>
|> Best,
|> Ista
|>
|> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 7:22 PM Patrick Connolly via ESS-help
|> wrote:
|> >
|> >
|> > I'm using the rtweet package which makes use of the Twitter API which
|> > requires a token alluded to by an environment variable.
|> >
|> > That environment variable is automatically set up from the Twitter web
|> > site and takes the name TWITTER_ (where is the
|> > name of the user in block letters). That worked fine on my work
|> > computer where my username is 'work'. When I copied that working
|> > directory to my home computer, the environment variable became
|> > TWITTER_HOME but the rtweet package was looking for
|> > TWITTER_WORK. There was no error message: just a null result from the
|> > search_users() function.
|> >
|> > I tried editing the ~/.Renviron entry to
|> > TWITTER_WORK=/home/home/.rtweet_token.rds
|> >
|> > That worked for a short time but soon ceased working. Then I noticed
|> > a new entry had been automatically added to ~/.Renviron
|> >
|> > TWITTER_HOME=/home/home/.rtweet_token1.rds
|> >
|> > So now I had two environment variables which also worked for a short
|> > time.
|> >
|> > No such problem arises if R is run from the bash prompt or Rstudio,
|> > but editing functions is so clunky that way. I've used ESS for more
|> > than 20 years and find it preferable.
|> >
|> > R-3.6.3, ESS 17.11
|> >
|> > Any ideas what could be causing the token connexion being lost
|> > appreciated.
|> >
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Re: [ESS] TWITTER API environment variables
On 9 April 2020 at 10:32, Ista Zahn via ESS-help wrote:
| Are you sure you've diagnosed the issue correctly? From what I can see
| the name of the environment variable is always TWITTER_PAT, at least
| in the current rtweet release (0.7.0). get_tokens calls twitter_pat
| (https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/blob/v0.7.0/R/tokens.R#L120) and
| twitter_pat hard-codes TWITTER_PAT
| (https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/blob/v0.7.0/R/tokens.R#L371). In
| short I don't see anything suggesting that the name of the environment
| variable includes a user name at all.
Seconded. AFAICT ESS does nothing all that special to R (apart from its
little integration bits, but that is orthogonal).
What I have done for years is a part of ~/.Rprofile being conditioned by
if (interactive()) ...
which R-called-from-ESS runs as it should---and I see it as it also calls
fortunes::fortune() is part of it. More recently within that section I added
if (dir.exists("~/.R/profile.d")) {
files <- list.files("~/.R/profile.d", pattern=".*\\.R$",
full.names=TRUE)
for (f in files) {
source(f)
}
}
and that is a simple way to set _context-specific_ options and env.vars one
may need for various web services. That allows me to git-commit the .Rprofile
without risking to commit tokens and env vars anywhere public (as profile.d/
gets added to .gitignore).
Lastly, for batch / automated twitter (as done e.g. by my CRANberriesFeed and
CRAN Policy Watch cron jobs) I rely on a very small and simple _external_
command called bti. Served me well during the years when rtweet and its
predecessor "matured".
Dirk
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Re: [ESS] TWITTER API environment variables
Hi Patrick,
Are you sure you've diagnosed the issue correctly? From what I can see
the name of the environment variable is always TWITTER_PAT, at least
in the current rtweet release (0.7.0). get_tokens calls twitter_pat
(https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/blob/v0.7.0/R/tokens.R#L120) and
twitter_pat hard-codes TWITTER_PAT
(https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/blob/v0.7.0/R/tokens.R#L371). In
short I don't see anything suggesting that the name of the environment
variable includes a user name at all.
Best,
Ista
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 7:22 PM Patrick Connolly via ESS-help
wrote:
>
>
> I'm using the rtweet package which makes use of the Twitter API which
> requires a token alluded to by an environment variable.
>
> That environment variable is automatically set up from the Twitter web
> site and takes the name TWITTER_ (where is the
> name of the user in block letters). That worked fine on my work
> computer where my username is 'work'. When I copied that working
> directory to my home computer, the environment variable became
> TWITTER_HOME but the rtweet package was looking for
> TWITTER_WORK. There was no error message: just a null result from the
> search_users() function.
>
> I tried editing the ~/.Renviron entry to
> TWITTER_WORK=/home/home/.rtweet_token.rds
>
> That worked for a short time but soon ceased working. Then I noticed
> a new entry had been automatically added to ~/.Renviron
>
> TWITTER_HOME=/home/home/.rtweet_token1.rds
>
> So now I had two environment variables which also worked for a short
> time.
>
> No such problem arises if R is run from the bash prompt or Rstudio,
> but editing functions is so clunky that way. I've used ESS for more
> than 20 years and find it preferable.
>
> R-3.6.3, ESS 17.11
>
> Any ideas what could be causing the token connexion being lost
> appreciated.
>
> --
> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.
>___Patrick Connolly
> {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas
> _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events
> (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people
> (_)-(_) . Eleanor Roosevelt
>
> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.
>
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[ESS] TWITTER API environment variables
I'm using the rtweet package which makes use of the Twitter API which
requires a token alluded to by an environment variable.
That environment variable is automatically set up from the Twitter web
site and takes the name TWITTER_ (where is the
name of the user in block letters). That worked fine on my work
computer where my username is 'work'. When I copied that working
directory to my home computer, the environment variable became
TWITTER_HOME but the rtweet package was looking for
TWITTER_WORK. There was no error message: just a null result from the
search_users() function.
I tried editing the ~/.Renviron entry to
TWITTER_WORK=/home/home/.rtweet_token.rds
That worked for a short time but soon ceased working. Then I noticed
a new entry had been automatically added to ~/.Renviron
TWITTER_HOME=/home/home/.rtweet_token1.rds
So now I had two environment variables which also worked for a short
time.
No such problem arises if R is run from the bash prompt or Rstudio,
but editing functions is so clunky that way. I've used ESS for more
than 20 years and find it preferable.
R-3.6.3, ESS 17.11
Any ideas what could be causing the token connexion being lost
appreciated.
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___Patrick Connolly
{~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas
_( Y )_ Average minds discuss events
(:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people
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