search_users with parse=TRUE fails if all found users haven't tweeted anything

[luke-a]

When calling rtweet::search_users("John Doe", parse = TRUE), one might encounter the error message

Error: Columns NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA must have unique names

I believe this happens when all of the returned users haven't tweeted anything, yet. Because then, status_object(x) returns a list with all elements being NULL. That is because if (&&(is.data.frame(x), c("favorite_count", "source") %in% names(x))) does not return TRUE; without any tweets there aren't any column named favorite_count and source.

[llrs]

This specific user now has tweeted, I think there was a more recent report of this issue. Closing it