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.
# S3 method for activity.youtube
Create(datasource, type, verbose = TRUE, ...)
Collected social media data with "datasource"
and "youtube"
class names.
Character string. Type of network to be created, set to "activity"
.
Logical. Output additional information about the network creation. Default is TRUE
.
Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.
Network as a named list of two dataframes containing $nodes
and $edges
.
if (FALSE) {
# create a YouTube activity network graph
activityNetwork <- youtubeData |> Create("activity")
# network
# activityNetwork$nodes
# activityNetwork$edges
}