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.

# S3 method for actor.reddit
Create(datasource, type, ...)

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.

Value

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

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# create a reddit actor network graph with comment text as edge attributes
actorNetwork <- redditData |> Create("actor")

# network
# actorNetwork$nodes
# actorNetwork$edges
}