1\name{strip_retweets} 2\alias{strip_retweets} 3\title{ 4A function to remove retweets 5} 6\description{ 7Given a list of status objects, will remove retweets from the list 8to provide a "pure" set of tweets. 9} 10\usage{ 11strip_retweets(tweets, strip_manual = TRUE, strip_mt = TRUE) 12} 13\arguments{ 14 \item{tweets}{A list of \code{\link{status}} objects} 15 \item{strip_manual}{If \code{TRUE} will remove old style manual retweets} 16 \item{strip_mt}{If \code{TRUE} will remove modified tweets (MT)} 17} 18\details{ 19Newer style retweets are summarily removed regardless of options. 20 21Older style retweets (aka manual retweets) are tweets of the form 22\code{RT @user blah blah}. If \code{strip_manual} is \code{TRUE}, tweets 23containing the \code{RT} string will have everything including and to the 24right of the \code{RT} will be removed. Everything to the left of the 25\code{RT} will remain, as this should be original content. 26 27If \code{strip_mt} is \code{TRUE}, tweets will be stripped in the same 28manner as \code{strip_manual} but using the string {\code{MT}} 29} 30\value{ 31A list of \code{status} objects with retweeted content removed 32} 33\author{ 34Jeff Gentry 35} 36\seealso{ 37\code{\link{status}} 38} 39\examples{ 40 \dontrun{ 41 tweets = searchTwitter("stuff") 42 no_retweets = strip_retweets(tweets) 43 } 44} 45\keyword{ utilities } 46