The goal of whereabouts is to …
You can install the released version of whereabouts from Github with:
remotes::install_github("mkearney/whereabouts")The package converts a character vector of location strings (like the ‘location’ column returned by Twitter’s API) into a data frame with geopolitical information.
## load whereabouts package
library(whereabouts)
## search for verified tweets
vrf_twt <- rtweet::search_tweets("filter:verified", n = 500)
## get the whereabouts of those tweets
w <- where(vrf_twt)
## preview geopolitical data and location field in returned data
w[!is.na(geoname_country),
.(location, geoname_name, geoname_region, geoname_country_name,
geoname_lat, geoname_long)]
#> location geoname_name geoname_region geoname_country_name geoname_lat geoname_long
#> 1: New York, NY <NA> NY United States of America 41.94 -74.87
#> 2: Distrito Capital, Venezuela <NA> <NA> Bolivia -18.04 -65.21
#> 3: United Kingdom <NA> <NA> United Kingdom 52.88 -1.86
#> 4: Finland <NA> <NA> Finland 62.26 24.89
#> 5: New York <NA> NY United States of America 41.94 -74.87
#> 6: New York, NY <NA> NY United States of America 41.94 -74.87
#> 7: Ukraine <NA> <NA> Ukraine 47.78 31.51
#> 8: Worldwide community. HQ CA, US <NA> <NA> United States of America 38.60 -90.53
#> 9: Chile <NA> <NA> Colombia 5.67 -74.75
#> 10: New York, NY <NA> NY United States of America 41.94 -74.87
#> ---
#> 180: Seattle, WA Seattle WA United States of America 47.61 -122.33
#> 181: Vancouver Vancouver WA United States of America 45.64 -122.66
#> 182: Vancouver, WA Vancouver WA United States of America 45.64 -122.66
#> 183: Kelowna, BC Kelowna 02 Canada 49.88 -119.49
#> 184: Kelowna, BC Kelowna 02 Canada 49.88 -119.49
#> 185: Mississauga, Ontario Mississauga 08 Canada 43.58 -79.66
#> 186: Kyiv, вул. Антоновича, 46 Kyiv 12 Ukraine 50.45 30.52
#> 187: İstanbul, Türkiye Istanbul 34 Turkey 41.01 28.95
#> 188: İstanbul, Türkiye Istanbul 34 Turkey 41.01 28.95
#> 189: Johannesburg, SA Johannesburg 06 South Africa -26.20 28.04