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.