The point in the code is to gather posts from a Facebook page and store them in my_page however i am unfamiliar with the code as it is for a Uni project. The problem i have is that it has to be used in a .rpres format created using Rstudio and as such i don't want the output but still need to run the code.
This is the output i don't want to be displayed:
```{r, echo = FALSE}
#install.packages("Rfacebook")
include(Rfacebook)
token <- "Facebook dev auth token goes here"
page_name <- "BuzzFeed"
my_page <- getPage(page_name, token, n = 2,reactions = TRUE,api = "v2.10")
number_required <- 50
dates <- seq(as.Date("2017/07/14"), Sys.Date(), by = "day")
#
n <- length(dates) - 1
df_daily <- list()
for (i in 1:n){
cat(as.character(dates[i]), " ")
try(df_daily[[i]] <- getPage(page_name, token,
n = number_required,reactions = TRUE,api = "v2.10",
since = dates[i],
until = dates[i+1]))
cat("\n")
}
```
Your problem is simply that Rfacebook::getPage
prints to the console when it runs. That's because it calls cat()
, which is the same thing as print()
. Fortunately the package provides a switch to turn that off - all you need to do is add the verbose = FALSE
argument to your call and it will stop printing:
getPage(...)
getPage(..., verbose = FALSE)
It's pretty bad practice for a package to call cat
or print
- they should use message
and warning
instead - so I have raised an issue with the package maintainer to ask for this to be changed, which you can watch here if you like: