Fixed version of twitterMap.R by Simply Statistics Blog. Fixed because currently you need oAuth to query user data. More details here http://lc0.github.io/blog/2013/08/25/twitter-word-cloud-with-r/

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     # Get location data
     cat("Getting data from Twitter, this may take a moment.\n")
-    tmp = getUser(userName, cainfo="cacert.pem")
+    tmp = getUser(userName)
     if(is.null(userLocation)){
         userLocation = location(tmp)
         userLocation = trim(userLocation)
         if(nchar(userLocation) < 2){stop("We can not find your location from Twitter")}
     }
     
-    followers=tmp$getFollowers(n=nMax, cainfo="cacert.pem")
+    followers=tmp$getFollowers(n=nMax)
     followersLocation = sapply(followers,function(x){location(x)})
-    following = tmp$getFriends(n=nMax, cainfo="cacert.pem")
+    following = tmp$getFriends(n=nMax)
     followingLocation = sapply(following,function(x){location(x)})

twitterMap.R

#########################################################################################
#   An R function to make a personalized map of people you follow and who follow you on twitter. 
#   R functions Copyright (C) 2011 Jeff Leek ([email protected]), and the Simply Statistics Blog
#   (http://simplystatistics.tumblr.com, http://twitter.com/simplystats)
#
#   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#   (at your option) any later version.
#
#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#   GNU General Public License for more details, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
#
#   These functions depend on the packages: twitteR, maps, geosphere, and RColorBrewer. It will
#   attempt to install them if they are not installed when you source this function. Care
#   should be used when using this function since the twitteR API has rate limiting in place.
#   If you have a large number of followers, or run the function many times, you may be
#   rate limited. 
#
#
#   How to use: 
#       # Source the function
#       source("http://biostat.jhsph.edu/~jleek/code/twitterMap.R")
#
#      # Make your twittermap
#      twitterMap("simplystats")
#
#      #If your location can't be found or latitude longitude can't be calculated
#      #choose a bigger city near you. The list of cities used by twitterMap
#      #can be found like so:
#      data(world.cities)
#      grep("Baltimore",world.cities[,1])
#
#      # Then make the map using that big city
#      twitterMap("simplystats",userLocation="Baltimore")
#   
#      #If you want both your followers and people you follow in a plot you can do:
#      twitterMap("simplystats",plotType="both")
#      
########################################################################################
getPckg <- function(pckg) install.packages(pckg, repos = "http://cran.r-project.org")

pckg = try(require(twitteR))
if(!pckg) {
    cat("Installing 'twitteR' from CRAN\n")
    getPckg("twitteR")
    require("twitteR")
}

pckg = try(require(maps))
if(!pckg) {
    cat("Installing 'maps' from CRAN\n")
    getPckg("maps")
    require("maps")
}

pckg = try(require(geosphere))
if(!pckg) {
    cat("Installing 'geosphere' from CRAN\n")
    getPckg("geosphere")
    require("geosphere")
}


pckg = try(require(RColorBrewer))
if(!pckg) {
    cat("Installing 'RColorBrewer' from CRAN\n")
    getPckg("RColorBrewer")
    require("RColorBrewer")
}


twitterMap <- function(userName,userLocation=NULL,fileName="twitterMap.pdf",nMax = 1000,plotType=c("followers","both","following")){
    
    # Get location data
    cat("Getting data from Twitter, this may take a moment.\n")
    tmp = getUser(userName, cainfo="cacert.pem")
    if(is.null(userLocation)){
        userLocation = location(tmp)
        userLocation = trim(userLocation)
        if(nchar(userLocation) < 2){stop("We can not find your location from Twitter")}
    }
    
    followers=tmp$getFollowers(n=nMax, cainfo="cacert.pem")
    followersLocation = sapply(followers,function(x){location(x)})
    following = tmp$getFriends(n=nMax, cainfo="cacert.pem")
    followingLocation = sapply(following,function(x){location(x)})
    
    
    # Load the geographic data
    data(world.cities)
    data(us.cities)
    data(canada.cities)
    
    # Find the latitude and longitude of the user
    cat("Getting geographic (latitude/longitude) of Twitter users.\n")
    userLL <- findLatLon(userLocation)$latlon
    if(any(is.na(userLL))){stop("We can't find the latitude and longitude of your location from Twitter")}
    
    
    # Find the latitude and longitude of each of the followers/following
    # and calcualte the distance to the user
    
    followersLL = matrix(NA,nrow=length(followers),ncol=4)
    followingLL = matrix(NA,nrow=length(following),ncol=4)
    
    for(i in 1:length(followers)){
        if(length(followersLocation[[i]]) > 0){
            tmpLL = findLatLon(trim(followersLocation[[i]]))
            if(any(!is.na(tmpLL$latlon))){
                followersLL[i,] = c(unlist(tmpLL$latlon),distCosine(userLL,tmpLL$latlon),unlist(tmpLL$cont))
            }
        }
    }
    
    for(i in 1:length(following)){
        if(length(followingLocation[[i]]) > 0){
            tmpLL = findLatLon(trim(followingLocation[[i]]))
            if(any(!is.na(tmpLL$latlon))){
                followingLL[i,] =  c(unlist(tmpLL$latlon),distCosine(userLL,tmpLL$latlon),unlist(tmpLL$cont))
            }
        }
    }
    
    followingLL = followingLL[order(-followingLL[,3]),]
    followersLL = followersLL[order(-followersLL[,3]),]
    
    followingLL = followingLL[!is.na(followingLL[,1]),]
    followersLL = followersLL[!is.na(followersLL[,1]),]
    
    
    cat("Plotting results.\n")
    # Set up the colors
    cols = brewer.pal(7,"Set2")
    
    # Both followers and following
    if(plotType=="both"){
        pdf(fileName,height=12,width=10)
        data(worldMapEnv)
        par(mfrow=c(2,1),mar=rep(0,4))
        map('world',col="#191919",bg="black",fill=T,mar=rep(0,4),border=0)
        
        mtext(paste("@",userName," Follower Map",sep=""),col="lightgrey")
        nFollowers = dim(followersLL)[1]
        for(i in 1:nFollowers){
            greatC = getGreatCircle(userLL,followersLL[i,1:2])
            lines(greatC,col=cols[followersLL[i,4]],lwd=0.8)
        }
        
        legend(-180,0,legend = c(paste("Asia",sum(followersLL[,4]==1)),paste("Africa",sum(followersLL[,4]==2)),paste("N. America",sum(followersLL[,4]==3)),paste("S. America",sum(followersLL[,4]==4)),paste("Australia/N.Z.",sum(followersLL[,4]==5)),paste("Europe",sum(followersLL[,4]==6))),text.col=cols[1:6],bg="black",cex=0.75)
        
        
        map('world',col="#191919",bg="black",fill=T,mar=rep(0,4),border=0)
        mtext(paste("@",userName," Following Map",sep=""),col="lightgrey")
        nFollowing = dim(followingLL)[1]
        for(i in 1:nFollowing){
            greatC = getGreatCircle(userLL,followingLL[i,1:2])
            lines(greatC,col=cols[followingLL[i,4]],lwd=0.8)
        }
        
        legend(-180,0,legend = c(paste("Asia",sum(followingLL[,4]==1)),paste("Africa",sum(followingLL[,4]==2)),paste("N. America",sum(followingLL[,4]==3)),paste("S. America",sum(followingLL[,4]==4)),paste("Australia/N.Z.",sum(followingLL[,4]==5)),paste("Europe",sum(followingLL[,4]==6))),text.col=cols[1:6],bg="black",cex=0.75)
        
        mtext("Created by @simplystats twitterMap",side=1,adj=1,cex=0.8,col="grey")
        dev.off()
    }
    
    ## Just followers
    if(plotType=="followers"){
        pdf(fileName,height=6,width=10)
        data(worldMapEnv)
        map('world',col="#191919",bg="black",fill=T,mar=rep(0,4),border=0)
        
        mtext(paste("@",userName," Follower Map",sep=""),col="lightgrey")
        nFollowers = dim(followersLL)[1]
        for(i in 1:nFollowers){
            greatC = getGreatCircle(userLL,followersLL[i,1:2])
            lines(greatC,col=cols[followersLL[i,4]],lwd=0.8)
        }
        
        legend(-180,0,legend = c(paste("Asia",sum(followersLL[,4]==1)),paste("Africa",sum(followersLL[,4]==2)),paste("N. America",sum(followersLL[,4]==3)),paste("S. America",sum(followersLL[,4]==4)),paste("Australia/N.Z.",sum(followersLL[,4]==5)),paste("Europe",sum(followersLL[,4]==6))),text.col=cols[1:6],bg="black",cex=0.75)
        mtext("Created by @simplystats twitterMap",side=1,adj=1,cex=0.8,col="grey")
        dev.off()
        
    }
    
    ## Just following
    if(plotType=="following"){
        pdf(fileName,height=6,width=10)
        data(worldMapEnv)
        map('world',col="#191919",bg="black",fill=T,mar=rep(0,4),border=0)
        mtext(paste("@",userName," Following Map",sep=""),col="lightgrey")
        nFollowing = dim(followingLL)[1]
        for(i in 1:nFollowing){
            greatC = getGreatCircle(userLL,followingLL[i,1:2])
            lines(greatC,col=cols[followingLL[i,4]],lwd=0.8)
        }
        
        legend(-180,0,legend = c(paste("Asia",sum(followingLL[,4]==1)),paste("Africa",sum(followingLL[,4]==2)),paste("N. America",sum(followingLL[,4]==3)),paste("S. America",sum(followingLL[,4]==4)),paste("Australia/N.Z.",sum(followingLL[,4]==5)),paste("Europe",sum(followingLL[,4]==6))),text.col=cols[1:6],bg="black",cex=0.75)
        
        mtext("Created by @simplystats twitterMap",side=1,adj=1,cex=0.8,col="grey")
        dev.off()
        
    }
    
}


findLatLon <- function(loc){
    latlon = NA
    cont = NA
    
    # Asia = 1, Africa = 2, North America = 3, South America = 4, Australia/New Zealand = 5, Europe = 6
    continents = matrix(NA,nrow=length(unique(world.cities[,2])),ncol=2)
    continents[,1] = unique(world.cities[,2])
    continents[1:10,2] = c(1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1)
    continents[11:20,2]= c(1,1,2,1,1,2,1,2,2,2)
    continents[21:30,2] = c(2,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6)
    continents[31:40,2] = c(6,6,6,6,2,4,4,1,2,1)
    continents[41:50,2] = c(4,6,1,4,6,1,3,1,6,6)
    continents[51:60,2] = c(3,2,4,2,6,1,6,1,3,2)
    continents[61:70,2] = c(1,2,2,2,3,6,3,3,6,6)
    continents[71:80,2] = c(1,1,2,6,3,4,3,4,6,1)
    continents[81:90,2] = c(3,3,3,2,2,6,6,6,6,4)
    continents[91:100,2] = c(2,5,2,2,3,1,1,1,1,1)
    continents[101:110,2] = c(1,2,1,1,1,3,2,5,1,6)
    continents[111:120,2] = c(1,6,1,1,2,6,1,1,6,2)
    continents[121:130,2] = c(6,6,6,1,1,3,4,3,4,2)
    continents[131:140,2] = c(6,6,2,2,1,1,1,4,1,1)
    continents[141:150,2] = c(1,2,2,1,1,1,4,6,6,2)
    continents[151:160,2] = c(4,1,1,1,1,2,4,6,2,2)
    continents[161:170,2] = c(1,2,2,1,6,2,1,1,6,1)
    continents[171:180,2] = c(1,1,1,2,6,2,2,6,1,1)
    continents[181:190,2] = c(2,6,2,1,6,6,3,3,3,3)
    continents[191:200,2] = c(2,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,3,1)
    continents[201:210,2] = c(3,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,6,2)
    continents[211:220,2] = c(1,3,1,6,2,4,3,6,3,4)
    continents[221:230,2] = c(1,1,1,3,2,3,3,6,1,6)
    continents[231:232,2] = c(2,1)
    
    
    # Get the first element of the location
    # firstElement = strsplit(loc,"[^[:alnum:]]")[[1]][1]
    firstElement = strsplit(loc,",")[[1]][1]
    if(is.na(firstElement)){firstElement="zzzzzzzzz"}
    
    # See if it is a city
    tmp = grep(firstElement,world.cities[,1],fixed=TRUE)
    tmp2 = grep(firstElement,state.name,fixed=TRUE)
    tmp3 = grep(firstElement,world.cities[,2],fixed=TRUE)
    
    if(length(tmp) == 1){
        latlon = world.cities[tmp,c(5,4)]
        cont = continents[which(world.cities[tmp,2]==continents[,1]),2]
    }else if(length(tmp) > 1){
        tmpCities = world.cities[tmp,]
        latlon = tmpCities[which.max(tmpCities$pop),c(5,4)]
        cont = continents[which(tmpCities[which.max(tmpCities$pop),2]==continents[,1]),2]
    }else if(length(tmp2) == 1){
        latlon = c(state.center$x[tmp2],state.center$y[tmp2])
        cont = 3
    }else if(length(tmp3) > 0){
        tmpCities = world.cities[tmp3,]
        latlon = tmpCities[which.max(tmpCities$pop),c(5,4)]
        cont = continents[which(tmpCities[which.max(tmpCities$pop),2]==continents[,1]),2]
    }
    
    return(list(latlon=latlon,cont=as.numeric(cont)))
    
}


getGreatCircle = function(userLL,relationLL){
    tmpCircle = greatCircle(userLL,relationLL)
    start = which.min(abs(tmpCircle[,1] - userLL[1,1]))
    end = which.min(abs(tmpCircle[,1] - relationLL[1]))
    greatC = tmpCircle[start:end,]
    return(greatC)
}

trim <- function (x) gsub("^\\s+|\\s+$", "", x)

so it dosen't work can you help to find someway ?