Using rtweet and ggplot2 to plot twitter words frequencies

This section seeks the master for words of wisdom. We're about to scrap Hadley's twitter (@hadleywickham). Several packages are combined in order to bring achieve the upcoming visual. This recipe begins by doing the twitter scrap, filtering data and finally plotting it with ggplot2.

Getting ready...

Besides ggplot2 there are four packages we require for this recipe. All of them can be downloaded and installed by the following code:

> if(!require(rtweet)){ install.packages('rtweet')} 
> if(!require(rcorpora)){ install.packages('rcorpora')}
> if(!require(dplyr)){ install.packages('dplyr')}
> if(!require(tidytext)){ install.packages('tidytext')}

With the right tools (packages) the task can be easily handled.

How to do it...

Let us see how to use <kbd>rtweet and ggplot2 to plot twitter words frequencies

1. Scrap tweets from Hadley's time line with rtweet::get_timeline():

> library(rtweet)
> sept_2017 <- '907969109840756736...