Welcome to this ‘repo’
What is this?
This is a Github repo, an online place to keep and share code. I have it connected to the RStudio app on my local computer, so all changes I make in the scripts for this unit can be easily synced with the online version.
Github is useful - but it is not at all essential to use it when you work in R. For example, I have been using R for 15 years and only started using Github this year. We don’t have time to discuss Github in this class, but if you’re ever interested, you will find plenty of introductions to Github and the combination with RStudio, for example this one. For now, I am only using it to get some information to you.
Your first view of this document is as a web page. If you click on the “View on Github” button above, you’ll see the regular Github view, which shows you all the other files in the project.
Working with Twitter data
The most important thing here is the tutorial showing the steps we need to take to first harvest and then analyze tweets. You can view the document here.
Lars Hinrichs | Université de Paris 3 | 01 April 2020