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Using tuber

Gaurav Sood

2020-06-10

tuber: Access YouTube from R

Install, Load the package

To install the latest version from CRAN:

The latest development version of the package will always be on GitHub. Instructions for installing the package from Github are provided below.

Next, load the package:

Using the package

To get going, get the application id and password from Google Developer Console (see https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started). Enable YouTube APIs. Create OAuth credentials, being sure to select ‘Other’ as your Application Type. Then set the application id and password via the yt_oauth function. For more information about YouTube OAuth, see YouTube OAuth Guide.

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## No. of Likes 5576 
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##   <text start="6.614" dur="1.549">Every four seconds,</text>
##   <text start="8.163" dur="1.534">someone is diagnosed with</text>
##   <text start="9.697" dur="1.885">Alzheimer&amp;#39;s disease.</text>
##   <text start="11.582" dur="2.172">It&amp;#39;s the most common cause of dementia,</text>
##   <text start="13.754" dur="2.859">affecting over 40 million people worldwide,</text>
##   <text start="16.613" dur="2.52">and yet finding a cure is something that still</text>
##   <text start="19.133" dur="2.482">eludes researchers today.</text>
##   <text start="21.615" dur="3.273">Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist,</text>
##   <text start="24.888" dur="3.047">first described the symptoms in 1901</text>
##   <text start="27.935" dur="2.46">when he noticed that a particular hospital patient</text>
##   <text start="30.395" dur="1.917">had some peculiar problems,</text>
##   <text start="32.312" dur="1.803">including difficulty sleeping,</text>
##   <text start="34.115" dur="3.37">disturbed memory, drastic mood changes,</text>
##   <text start="37.485" dur="2.166">and increasing confusion.</text>
##   <text start="39.651" dur="1.877">When the patient passed away,</text>
##   <text start="41.528" dur="2.211">Alzheimer was able to do an autopsy</text>
##   <text start="43.739" dur="2.04">and test his idea that perhaps</text>
##   <text start="45.779" dur="2.421">her symptoms were caused by irregularities</text>
##   <text start="48.2" dur="1.963">in the brain&amp;#39;s structure.</text>
##   <text start="50.163" dur="1.951">What he found beneath the microscope</text>
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##   <text start="60.548" dur="2.378">Those plaques and tangles work together</text>
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##   <text start="78.448" dur="1.952">That clumping is what forms the things</text>
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##   <text start="92.832" dur="2.782">In Alzheimer&amp;#39;s disease, neurofibrillary tangles</text>
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##   <text start="98.699" dur="2.89">The brain&amp;#39;s nerve cells contain a network of tubes</text>
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##   <text start="124.029" dur="2.336">The destructive pairing of plaques and tangles</text>
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##   <text start="143.281" dur="1.235">At the front of the brain,</text>
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##   <text start="148.052" dur="3.168">Next, they shift to the region that controls emotions,</text>
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##   <text start="153.557" dur="1.224">At the top of the brain,</text>
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##   <text start="163.615" dur="1.621">Eventually the control centers governing</text>
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##   <text start="169.826" dur="2.039">The immensely destructive nature of this disease</text>
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##   <text start="178.616" dur="1.387">One temporary treatment</text>
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