Limited results in searchTwitter() or userTimeline() - r

Question

I am trying to fetch tweets using searchTwitter() and/or userTimeline()
I want to fetch maximum number tweets allowed to fetch by twitterR API (I believe that limit is around 3000.)
But in result I'm only getting very few posts (like 83 or 146). I'm sure there are more number of posts, when I check the Timeline of that user (via browser or app) I see there are more than 3000 posts.
Below is the message I get.
r_stats <- searchTwitter("#ChangeToMeIs", n=2000)
Warning message:
In doRppAPICall("search/tweets", n, params = params, retryOnRateLimit = retryOnRateLimit, :
2000 tweets were requested but the API can only return 83
Is there anything I am missing on?
PS: I've checked all related question before posting. Before marking duplicate, please help me with the solution.

Answer 1

Actually, you are using is the Twitter Search API and it only returns a sample of results, not the comprehensive search.
What you need is Twitter Streaming API.
Please note that the Twitter search API does not return an exhaustive
list of tweets that match your search criteria, as Twitter only makes
available a sample of recent tweets. For a more comprehensive search,
you will need to use the Twitter streaming API, creating a database of
results and regularly updating them, or use an online service that can
do this for you.
Source: https://colinpriest.com/2015/07/04/tutorial-using-r-and-twitter-to-analyse-consumer-sentiment/

Answer 2

I install the library twitteR from git hub and this is quite important that the version is from git not CRAN
Than set up
setup_twitter_oauth("xxxxxxx", "xxxxx")
and than you can use the commends as
To get twitts from users timeline
ut <- userTimeline('xxxx', n=2000)
ut <- twListToDF(ut)
or to search for specific hastags
tweets<-twListToDF(searchTwitter("#f1", n=5000))
It works perfect for me
R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252 LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252 LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.9
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12 httr_1.1.0 rjson_0.2.15 plyr_1.8.3 R6_2.1.2 rsconnect_0.4.1.11 DBI_0.3.1 tools_3.2.2
[9] whisker_0.3-2 yaml_2.1.13 Rcpp_0.12.4 bit64_0.9-5 rCharts_0.4.5 RJSONIO_1.3-0 grid_3.2.2 lattice_0.20-33

Answer 3

Since twitteR is going to be deprecated, what you need to do is install rtweet.
Here is the code:
# Install and load the 'rtweet' package
install.packages("rtweet")
library(rtweet)
# whatever name you assigned to your created app
appname <- "tweet-search-app"
# api key (example below is not a real key)
key <- "9GmBeouvgfdljlBLryeIeqCHEt"
# api secret (example below is not a real key)
secret <- "ugdfdgdgrxOzjhlkhlxgdxllhoiofdtrrdytszghcv"
# create token named "twitter_token"
twitter_token <- create_token(
app = appname,
consumer_key = key,
consumer_secret = secret)
# Retrieve tweets for a particular hashtag
r_stats <- search_tweets("#ChangeToMeIs", n = 2000, token = twitter_token)