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R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund; Hadley Wickham
ISBN: 9781491910399
Publication Date: 2017-01-05
Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible. Each section of the book is paired with exercises to help you practice what you've learned along the way.

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1. Preparation

(1) Twitter account

“Create New App” > "Create your Twitter application" >

“Keys and Access Tokens” > “Create My Access Token”

2. Download & install R & RStudio

3. Script resources

Watts, R. (2017, January 25). Script. Retrieved from http://www.mediafire.com/file/uzad57u6amfl4uu/Interhacktives_Twitter_Scraper.R/file#!

4. Editing, running & debugging source script