Any twitteR type package for Facebook in R Programming?

Question

Are there any packages in R for Facebook that are similar to twitteR? I would like to analyze Facebook data just like the twitteR package does for Twitter.

My objective is to analyze how the facebookers talking about a certain keyword. Alike analysis had been done for Twitter with twitteR package. For example: Twitter Listening Robot. This analysis can tell us who is tweeting, retweeting, who is the top users, when they are tweeting, who is tweeting whom, wordcloud and so.

I would like to replicate the same for Facebook. I just started researching about this and found that lack of public Facebook analysis using R.

Some useful resources for this topic I found:

1. Facebook Mining
2. Mining Facebook Data: Most "Liked" Status and Friendship Network

Updated 23 June:

Since lack of information about the public facebook graph analysis, I would like to start the ball rolling, here are some source code or information might be useful. Join me if you're interested.

• Facebook Graph: Scrapping Social Info with R is the Facebook Graph (#API) parameter summary.
• Most LIKES facebook post for keyword UMNO 3 is a sample R script with Facebook Graph application.

Answer 1

Not exactly the same as what twitteR does. But you may have a look at posts by David Smith (Revolutions Analytics).

1. Analysis of Facebook status updates http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/12/analysis-of-facebook-status-updates.html

2. Facebook-class social network analysis with R and Hadoop http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/05/facebook-class-social-network-analysis-with-r-and-hadoop.html

Answer 2

Here is one more blogpost on this topic.