{"id":7756,"date":"2018-01-05T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2018-03-10T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T12:54:16","slug":"a-bookdown-hello-world-twenty-one-minus-two-recipes-for-mining-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2018\/01\/05\/a-bookdown-hello-world-twenty-one-minus-two-recipes-for-mining-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"A bookdown “Hello World” : Twenty-one (minus two) Recipes for Mining Twitter with rtweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new year begins with me being on the hook to crank out a book on advanced web-scraping in R by July (more on that in a future blog post). The bookdown<\/code>?<\/a> package seemed to be the best way to go about doing this but I had only played with the toy\/default examples of it and wanted to test out the platform with a “Hello, World”<\/a>-like example of a “real” book to iron out issues and avoid more refactoring later on than I know I will have to do. I’ve been on an rtweet<\/code> kick as of late (I have no idea why) and had an e-copy of O’Reilly’s 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter<\/a> in the their synced Dropbox folder (it was a free giveaway a few years ago) and decided to make an rtweet<\/code> version of it in a bookdown<\/code> project.<\/p>\n

You can find the GitHub repo for it here<\/a> and the rendered version here<\/a>. NOTE: I will likely not finish the remaining two chapters (I need to spend the time on the real book :-) but will gladly add you<\/em> as a co-author if you shoot over a PR.<\/p>\n

I began with Sean Kross’ quick start<\/a> and decided to work primarily in Sublime Text and use a Makefile<\/code> to manage the build process. Since the goal was to iron out kinks for a real production book, here’s a bullet list of some tips as a result of figuring out what worked for me:<\/p>\n