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Asked: 2026-05-21T04:38:36+00:00

I am having some trouble installing the twitteR and RAOuth packages that are up

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I am having some trouble installing the twitteR and RAOuth packages that are up on CRAN. I have tried a few different ways; under Windows from source, under Ubuntu using RStudio. I tried the following commands

sudo apt-get install r-cran-twitteR

or

install.packages("packagename", repos=NULL, type="source")

Using RStudio and from source under windows, I am getting a non-zero exit status message.

I have installed from source in the past, but my knowledge on the topic is fairly limited. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Here is my system info:

R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to first ascertain whether a package exists:

     $ apt-cache search r-cran-twitter

    will return nothing as it is not packaged. There are 2900+ packages on CRAN but 150 (give or take) on in Ubuntu as r-cran-*.

    So in that you can you can either download from inside R, or use a browser or something like wget followed by R CMD INSTALL. My personal favourite is the script install.r that is an example in my littler package — try sudo apt-get install littler if you want that.

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