No Twitter authorization prompt when using rtweet package

Question

When using rtweet, I am not prompted to sign into twitter at any point. As a result I receive a : Error: is.request(signed_req) is not TRUE error. Any suggestions on how to overcome this issue?

I have been following the getting started examples on cran with no success. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Could you post some of the code you tried? According to http://rtweet.info/ :

The first time you make an API request—eg, search_tweets(), stream_tweets(), get_followers()—a browser window will open

You may need to reinstall from the github.

Answer 2

I ran into a similar authentication where I was not prompted to login after trying to use search_tweets() . However, my error code read:

Error in oauth_listener(authorize_url, is_interactive) :
httpuv package required to capture OAuth credentials.

After installing the httpuv package, I reran search_tweets() as was able to make a successful call.