README.md

This is the README file for tweet-keywords.

Author: @christinesfkao

MMM/YYYY: Sep 2020

Synopsis

Rscript grep_keywords.R

This R script helps grepping keywords from tweets provided by the Information Operations of Twitter.

Things to do before running

• copy and paste all the links of .zip files you would like to download into url.txt, one url for each line
• make your own list of keywords to keywords.txt, one keyword for each line
• put url.txt and keywords.txt into the directory /tweet-keywords

System requirements

• R version 3.5.1+
• Packages to install
  • data.table
  • bit64

Directory

tweets/ <all given input files>

outputs/ <all output files>

grep_keywords.R

url.txt <Example: All "tweet information" link locations, updated Sep 5th, 2020>
		 
README.md

Run

cd tweet-keywords/tweets
wget -i ../url.txt
unzip '*.zip'

Rscript ../grep_keywords.R