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I am pulling twitter data for my Machine Learning experiment
After I get the data from my search, I want to turn it to a dataframe like this:
tweets <- searchTwitter("Bicester Village", n=1000)
df <- do.call("rbind", lapply(tweets, as.data.frame))
Twitter data arrives as list of S4 elements. I can successfully carry out experiment in my R Studio and get the results I want.
I then want to see if the data will display in sources, but I see this error:
Error
Details: "Unable to translate bytes [ED][A0] at index 1 from specified code page to Unicode."
I have tried endlesly to convert to UTF-8 (which is not a problem in R Studio), but no luck
Hi @sashan,
Can you share some detail content about this issue?
Since you mentioned about use r script with twitter api, you can also take a look at below article :
Twitter Analysis using SSIS 2016 and SQL Server R Services
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Hi @sashan
I too got the same issue.
I have solved this as below
library(twitteR)
library(stringi)
tweets <- searchTwitter("Bicester Village", n=100,lang="en")
df <- twListToDF(tweets)
df$text <- stri_encode(df_tweets$text, "", "UTF-8")
But strange thing is it works fine in RStudio but not in power bi query sometimes
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