This package provides a series of functions that allow R users to access Twitter's filter, sample, and user streams, and to parse the output into data frames.
filterStream
(Package: streamR) :
Connect to Twitter Streaming API and return public statuses that
filterStream opens a connection to Twitter's Streaming API that will return public statuses that match one or more filter predicates. Tweets can be filtered by keywords, users, language, and location. The output can be saved as an object in memory or written to a text file.
userStream
(Package: streamR) :
Connect to Twitter Streaming API and return messages for a single user.
userStream opens a connection to Twitter's Streaming API that will return statuses specific to the authenticated user. The output can be saved as an object in memory or written to a text file.