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[Win 10; R 3.4.3; RStudio 1.1.383; Rfacebook 0.6.15]

Hi!

I would like to ask two questions concerning the Rfacebook's getPost function:

  1. Even though I have tried all possible combinations of the logical values for the arguments "comments", "reactions" and "likes", the best result I could get so far was a list of 3 components for each post ("post", "comments", and "likes") - that is, without the "reactions" component. Nevertheless, according to the rdocumentation, "getPost returns a list with up to four components: post, likes, comments, and reactions". getPost

  2. Besides the (somehow strange) fact that, according to the same documentation, the argument "reactions" should be FALSE (default) in order to retrieve info on the total reactions to the post(s), I noticed a seemingly odd result: if I simultaneously set "reactions" and "likes" to be either TRUE or FALSE, R returns neither an error nor a warning message. The reason I find it a bit odd is because likes = !reactions in its own definition.

Here is the code:

    #packageVersion("Rfacebook")
    #[1] ‘0.6.15'

    ## temporary access token
    fb_oauth <- "user access token"

    qtd <- 5000

    #pag_loop$id[1]
    #[1] "242862559586_10156144461009587"

    # arguments with default value (reactions = F, likes = T, comments = T)
    x <- getPost(pag_loop$id[1], token = fb_oauth, n = qtd)

    str(x)
    # retrieves a list of 3: posts, likes, comments

Can someone please explain to me why I don't get the reaction's component?

Best,

Luana

Maria Wollestonecraft
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Men, this is by the new version of facebook. This worked fine to V2.10 Version of API of facebook. As V2.11 and forward, it no longer works well.

user2615063
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I also can not capture the reactions, and the user's name is null. I have win 10 and R 3.4.2. Could to be R version? please, if you can to resolve this issue send me the response to my email

user2615063
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  • I had to use the temporary user access token to get info on the users who liked the post (but this is gonna change next week anyway- the page access token is gonna be required from now on) :/ – Maria Wollestonecraft Feb 05 '18 at 05:42