TWITTER API environment variables

Hello Kimmo,

Yes.  I did that and it worked fine -- as far as it goes.  But it
didn't cover what to do when using the same twitter account on a
computer with a different user name -- which is what my question was
about.


On Wed, 08-Apr-2020 at 08:55AM +0300, K. Elo wrote:

Hi!

Have you already read this:

I think they explain rather well how to use Twitter tokens with
rtweet...

HTH,
Kimmo

ke, 2020-04-08 kello 17:19 +1200, Patrick Connolly kirjoitti:

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_<username> (where <username> 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.

Recommendations please.