search_tweets() Error in vector("list", ntimes) : invalid 'length' argument

[mjfrigaard]

Problem

I have been trying to use rtweet this morning, but run into issues with the search_tweet() function.

First I create a list of terms (accounts):

twitter_app_searches <- paste("@delta", "@aureliusvalue", 
                        "@viceroyresearch", "@citronresearch", 
                        "@muddywatersresearch", "@alderlaneeggs", 
                        "@contrarianshort", "@capitolistpig", 
                        "@hedgeye", "$GOGO", "$HIIQ", sep = " OR ")
twitter_app_searches

then I use the function...

## search for 1000 tweets using the vector created above
StockSearches <- rtweet::search_tweets(q = twitter_app_searches, 
                                     # keep trying to get more tweets
                                     retryonratelimit = TRUE, 
                                     parse = TRUE,
                                     n = 1000, 
                                     include_rts = TRUE)
StockSearches

Expected behavior

This should result in a data frame like the vignette shows, but instead I get this error:

Error in vector("list", ntimes) : invalid 'length' argument

Reproduce the problem

## insert code here
devtools::install_github("mkearney/rtweet")
library(rtweet)
library(httr)
library(httpuv)
library(tidyverse)
library(visdat)
library(inspectdf)
library(skimr)

twitter_app_searches <- paste("@delta", "@aureliusvalue", 
                        "@viceroyresearch", "@citronresearch", 
                        "@muddywatersresearch", "@alderlaneeggs", 
                        "@contrarianshort", "@capitolistpig", 
                        "@hedgeye", "$GOGO", "$HIIQ", sep = " OR ")
twitter_app_searches

## search for 1000 tweets using the vector created above
StockSearches <- rtweet::search_tweets(q = twitter_app_searches, 
                                     # keep trying to get more tweets
                                     retryonratelimit = TRUE, 
                                     parse = TRUE,
                                     n = 1000, 
                                     include_rts = TRUE)
# > Error in vector("list", ntimes) : invalid 'length' argument

rtweet version

## copy/paste output
packageVersion("rtweet")
[1] ‘0.7.0’

Session info

## copy/paste output
sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] inspectdf_0.0.7   visdat_0.5.3      httpuv_1.5.2      httr_1.4.1       
 [5] rtweet_0.7.0      hrbrthemes_0.6.0  mosaic_1.5.0      Matrix_1.2-18    
 [9] mosaicData_0.17.0 ggformula_0.9.2   ggstance_0.3.3    lattice_0.20-38  
[13] skimr_2.1         janitor_1.2.1     forcats_0.4.0     stringr_1.4.0    
[17] dplyr_0.8.4       purrr_0.3.3       readr_1.3.1       tidyr_1.0.2      
[21] tibble_2.1.3      ggplot2_3.2.1     tidyverse_1.3.0  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] colorspace_1.4-1  ellipsis_0.3.0    rsconnect_0.8.16  leaflet_2.0.3    
 [5] rprojroot_1.3-2   base64enc_0.1-3   ggdendro_0.1-20   fs_1.3.1         
 [9] rstudioapi_0.10   farver_2.0.3      remotes_2.1.0     ggrepel_0.8.1    
[13] ggfittext_0.8.1   fansi_0.4.1       lubridate_1.7.4   xml2_1.2.2       
[17] splines_3.6.1     extrafont_0.17    knitr_1.27        pkgload_1.0.2    
[21] jsonlite_1.6.1    packrat_0.5.0     broom_0.5.4       Rttf2pt1_1.3.8   
[25] dbplyr_1.4.2      shiny_1.4.0       compiler_3.6.1    backports_1.1.5  
[29] assertthat_0.2.1  fastmap_1.0.1     lazyeval_0.2.2    cli_2.0.1        
[33] later_1.0.0       htmltools_0.4.0   prettyunits_1.1.1 tools_3.6.1      
[37] gtable_0.3.0      glue_1.3.1        Rcpp_1.0.3        cellranger_1.1.0 
[41] vctrs_0.2.2       nlme_3.1-143      extrafontdb_1.0   crosstalk_1.0.0  
[45] xfun_0.12         ps_1.3.0          testthat_2.3.1    rvest_0.3.5      
[49] mime_0.8          lifecycle_0.1.0   mosaicCore_0.6.0  devtools_2.2.1   
[53] MASS_7.3-51.5     scales_1.1.0      hms_0.5.3         promises_1.1.0   
[57] yaml_2.2.1        curl_4.3          memoise_1.1.0     gridExtra_2.3    
[61] gdtools_0.2.1     stringi_1.4.5     desc_1.2.0        pkgbuild_1.0.6   
[65] repr_1.1.0        rlang_0.4.4       pkgconfig_2.0.3   systemfonts_0.1.1
[69] evaluate_0.14     labeling_0.3      htmlwidgets_1.5.1 tidyselect_1.0.0 
[73] processx_3.4.1    magrittr_1.5      R6_2.4.1          generics_0.0.2   
[77] DBI_1.1.0         pillar_1.4.3      haven_2.2.0       withr_2.1.2      
[81] modelr_0.1.5      crayon_1.3.4      utf8_1.1.4        rmarkdown_2.1    
[85] progress_1.2.2    usethis_1.5.1     grid_3.6.1        readxl_1.3.1     
[89] callr_3.4.1       reprex_0.3.0      digest_0.6.23     xtable_1.8-4     
[93] openssl_1.4.1     munsell_0.5.0     askpass_1.1       sessioninfo_1.1.1

Token

## copy/paste output
rtweet::get_token()
<Token>
<oauth_endpoint>
 request:   https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token
 authorize: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate
 access:    https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token
<oauth_app> hacknews2014
  key:    XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  secret: <hidden>
<credentials> oauth_token, oauth_token_secret
---

[danielspottiswood]

Having the same problem

[danielspottiswood]

Reinstalling/updating httr fixed this issue for me.

[danielspottiswood]

Nevermind. Issue resurfaced.

[llrs]

Works for me, perhaps was a problem with API rate limits?