Create reddit actor network — Create.actor.reddit • vosonSML

Creates a reddit actor network from thread comments on subreddits. Users who have commented on a thread are actor nodes and comment replies to each other are represented as directed edges.

Usage

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

Arguments

datasource: Collected social media data with "datasource" and "reddit" class names.
type: Character string. Type of network to be created, set to "actor".
...: 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 reddit actor network graph with comment text as edge attributes
actorNetwork <- redditData |> Create("actor")

# network
# actorNetwork$nodes
# actorNetwork$edges
} # }