Facebook and R

Also see - Getting Started with R

• http://pablobarbera.com/blog/archives/3.html

install.packages("Rfacebook")  # from CRAN
library(devtools)
install_github("Rfacebook", "pablobarbera", subdir = "Rfacebook")  # from GitHub

library(Rfacebook)
# token generated here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer 
token <- "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
me <- getUsers("xxxx", token, private_info = TRUE)
me$name # my name

my_friends <- getFriends(token, simplify = TRUE)
head(my_friends$id, n = 1) # get lowest user ID

my_friends_info <- getUsers(my_friends$id, token, private_info = TRUE)
table(my_friends_info$gender)  # gender

table(substr(my_friends_info$locale, 1, 2))  # language
table(substr(my_friends_info$locale, 4, 5))  # country
table(my_friends_info$relationship_status)["It's complicated"]  # relationship status

mat <- getNetwork(token, format = "adj.matrix")
dim(mat)

See - http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/11/how-to-analyze-you-facebook-friends-network-with-r.html