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

Examples

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