I’m having some problems getting the Friend List of a twitter user from R,

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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T16:36:28+00:00 2026-05-26T16:36:28+00:00

I’m having some problems getting the Friend List of a twitter user from R, using the TwitteR package.

What I want to get is a character vector with the names of all the “Friends” of a user – this is, the list of people he/she is following.

Following the documentation, I thought this code would work:

    library("twitteR")
    user <- getUser("@twitter")
    user$getFriends()

But I get the following error message:

    Error in envRefInferField(x, what, getClass(class(x)), selfEnv) :
    "friendIDs" is not a valid field or method name for reference class "user"

Can anyone help me?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-26T16:36:29+00:00

Editorial Team

Sorry, this was a bug that I just fixed tonight (a severe lack of time has struck lately). The latest version (0.99.12) should fix this problem.

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