TwitteR setup_twitter_oauth() failing

Question

I was following the vignette for the package, updated and loaded all necessary packages, seemed like it would be a pretty straight-forward process to authenticate. Instead,

Answer 1

I used a different wireless network (which was less secure) and this worked for me

Answer 2

The problem for me was that my curl was out-of-date, so it wasn't able to verify the SSL certificate it was receiving. All I had to do is update curl (simply conda update curl if you're using anaconda) and oauth worked perfectly after that.

Answer 3

install.packages("base64enc") was what solved this issue for me.

Answer 4

Try to regenerate the consumer key and access_token keys. I also faced the similar problem. Nothing resolved my problem. But after I regenerated the keys and used the new keys its resolved and works beauty.

Answer 5

I tried all the suggestions here but surprisingly none worked for me. Somebody could be going through the same situation as I did so I answer with what worked for me- it seems that the problem was with direct authentication, so I followed the following steps(this requires one to have the openssl package) installed and loaded along with the twitteR package;

Ensure you have created your twitter API and have the consumerkey and consumerSecret codes, and preferably remain logged into twitter with your default web browser

packages <- c("twitteR", "openssl")
### checking if packages are already installed and installing if not
for(i in packages){
    if(!(i %in% installed.packages()[, "Package"])){
        install.packages(i)
    }
library(i, character.only = TRUE) ## load packages
}

setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key, consumer_secret) ## do not input the access_token and access_secret

This is going to open up your default browser with the successful authentication message. You can close the browser now and continue exploring tweets with R.

Answer 6

Faced the same problem. Then realized that I was not logged into Twitter (from default browser). Logged in to Twitter and everything worked perfectly.