A description on how this package is applied (for Linux and Windows) can be found here:
http://www.joyofdata.de/blog/twitters-rest-api-v1-1-with-r-for-linux-and-windows/
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("joyofdata/RTwitterAPI")
library(RTwitterAPI)
params <- c(
"oauth_consumer_key" = "[API Key]",
"oauth_nonce" = NA,
"oauth_signature_method" = "HMAC-SHA1",
"oauth_timestamp" = NA,
"oauth_token" = "[Access Token]",
"oauth_version" = "1.0",
"consumer_secret" = "[API Secret]",
"oauth_token_secret" = "[Access Token Secret]"
);
# https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/followers/ids
url <- "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friends/ids.json";
query <- c(cursor=-1, screen_name="hrw", count=10);
result <- RTwitterAPI::twitter_api_call(url, query, params, print_result=TRUE)