R - Twitter - create a graph of tweets by country (geographic location)

I am trying to create a graph of tweets for a specific hashtag according to geographic location. The place must be a country.

I would like to check if my code below is actually filtering tweets by country (France in this case):

tag=„NBA"
# determine place id corresponding to country coordinates
      geo=GET("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/geo/search.json?query=France&granularity=country",
      config(token = twitter_token))
      geo <- content(geo, as = "text")
      geo=fromJSON(geo)
      country_id= geo$result$places$id
# use id to filter tweets by country
      req=GET(sprintf("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%%23%s&src=typd&count=100&id=%s",
                  tag, country_id),
          config(token = twitter_token))
      req <- content(req, as = "text")
      newTweets=fromJSON(req)

      

        
        
        
      

    

Is this the way?

What I find somewhat perplexing is that according to ...

https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/search/tweets

... there is only the option to set an option geocode

, but nothing is mentioned regardingplace_id