Automated httr authentication with twitteR , provide response to interactive prompt in “batch” mode

Question

I am using the R package twitteR to post items to Twitter. I put everything inside of a function and it works fine. However, I would like to run the function without being

Answer 1

This works perfectly fine.

install.packages("twitteR", dependencies = T)
install.packages(c('ROAuth','RCurl'))
install.packages("httr")
library(httr)
require('ROAuth')
require('RCurl')
library(twitteR)



reqURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"

accessURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"

authURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"

consumerKey <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXX"

consumerSecret <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

twitCred <-     OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,consumerSecret=consumerSecret,requestURL=reqURL,accessURL=accessURL,authURL=authURL)

download.file(url="https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem", destfile="cacert.pem")

 twitCred$handshake(cainfo="cacert.pem")

  setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret)