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Network data

Source: R/graph-network.R
network_data.Rd

  • network_data() returns a data frame that can easily be converted to various network classes.

  • network_graph() returns a igraph object

Usage

network_data(x, e = c("mention", "retweet", "reply", "quote"))

network_graph(x, e = c("mention", "retweet", "reply", "quote"))

Arguments

x

Data frame returned by rtweet function

e

Type of edge/link–i.e., "mention", "retweet", "quote", "reply". This must be a character vector of length one or more. This value will be split on punctuation and space (so you can include multiple types in the same string separated by a comma or space). The values "all" and "semantic" are assumed to mean all edge types, which is equivalent to the default value of c("mention", "retweet", "reply", "quote")

Value

A from/to data edge data frame

An igraph object

Details

Retrieve data to know which users are connected to which users.

See also

network_graph

Examples

if (auth_has_default()) {
  ## search for #rstats tweets
  rstats <- search_tweets("#rstats", n = 200)

  ## create from-to data frame representing retweet/mention/reply connections
  rstats_net <- network_data(rstats, c("retweet","mention","reply"))

  ## view edge data frame
  rstats_net

  ## view user_id->screen_name index
  attr(rstats_net, "idsn")

  ## if igraph is installed...
  if (requireNamespace("igraph", quietly = TRUE)) {

    ## (1) convert directly to graph object representing semantic network
    rstats_net <- network_graph(rstats)

    ## (2) plot graph via igraph.plotting
    plot(rstats_net)
  }
}