Rcrastinate: May 2018

Send tweets from R: A very short walkthrough

There are a few reasons why you might want to send tweets from R. You might want to write a Twitter bot or - as in my case - you want to send yourself a tweet when a very long computation finishes.

So, here I will run you through all the steps you have to take using

- Twitter's API and

- the twitteR package written by Jeff Gentry

The setup to send myself tweets is the following: I have my main twitter account and an additional account I am only using to tweet from R. I am following the additional account with my main account. On my phone's Twitter app, my main account is logged in and notifications are activated only for the additional account. So, whenever I tweet something with the additional account, the new tweet pops up on my phone.

Let's get started.

May

Get your tracks from the Strava API and plot them on Leaflet maps

Here is some updated R code from my previous post. It doesn't throw any warnings when importing tracks with and without heart rate information. Also, it is easier to distinguish types of tracks now (e.g., when you want to plot runs and rides separately). Another thing I changed: You get very basic information on the track when you click on it (currently the name of the track and the total length).

Have fun and leave a comment if you have any questions.