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[Deprecated]

This endpoint was previously deprecated and remains available for historical reference. The underlying data source is no longer updated and no new data is being ingested. For more details, refer to the "Endpoints kept for historical reference" section of vignette("migration-guide"), and visit the V5 signals documentation.

API docs: https://cmu-delphi.github.io/delphi-epidata/api/twitter.html

This is the API documentation for accessing the Twitter Stream endpoint of Delphi’s epidemiological data. Sourced from Healthtweets

Usage

pvt_twitter(
  auth,
  locations,
  ...,
  time_type = c("day", "week"),
  time_values = "*",
  fetch_args = fetch_args_list()
)

Arguments

auth

string. Your restricted access key (not the same as API key).

locations

character. List of locations to fetch. See the codes of the US regions and states # nolint for details.

...

not used for values, forces later arguments to bind by name

time_type

string. The temporal resolution of the data (either "day" or "week", depending on signal).

time_values

timeset. Dates or epiweeks to fetch. Supports epirange() and defaults to all ("*") dates.

fetch_args

fetch_args_list(). Additional arguments to pass to fetch(). See fetch_args_list() for details.

See also

For example queries showing how to discover signals and build calls, see vignette("signal-discovery", package = "epidatr").

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
pvt_twitter(
  auth = Sys.getenv("DELPHI_EPIDATA_KEY"),
  locations = "CA",
  time_type = "week",
  time_values = epirange(201501, 202001)
)
} # }