Create mastodon actor network — Create.actor.mastodon • vosonSML

Creates a mastodon actor network from posts. Mastodon users who have posted are actor nodes. The created network is directed with edges representing replies.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'actor.mastodon'
Create(
  datasource,
  type,
  subtype = NULL,
  inclMentions = TRUE,
  ...,
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

datasource: Collected social media data with "datasource" and "mastodon" class names.
type: Character string. Type of network to be created, set to "actor".
subtype: Character string. Subtype of actor network to be created. Can be set to "server". Default is NULL.
inclMentions: Logical. Create edges for users mentioned or tagged in posts. Default is TRUE.
...: 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 mastodon actor network
actor_net <- mastodon_data |> Create("actor")

# create a mastodon server relations network
actor_net <- mastodon_data |> Create("actor", "server")
} # }