Create YouTube activity network — Create.activity.youtube • vosonSML

Creates an activity network from collected YouTube video comment threads. Nodes are top-level comments, reply comments and videos. Edges are directed between the nodes and represent commenting activity.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'activity.youtube'
Create(datasource, type, ..., writeToFile = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

datasource: Collected social media data with "datasource" and "youtube" class names.
type: Character string. Type of network to be created, set to "activity".
...: Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.
writeToFile: Logical. Write data to file. Default is FALSE.
verbose: Logical. Output additional information. Default is TRUE.

Value

Network as a named list of two dataframes containing $nodes and $edges.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# create a YouTube activity network graph
activityNetwork <- youtubeData |> Create("activity")

# network
# activityNetwork$nodes
# activityNetwork$edges
} # }