Reference

Function Reference

Available functions and helpers

vosonSML-package

Collection and network analysis of social media data

Authenticate

Authenticate()

Create a credential object to access social media APIs

Authenticate(<reddit>)

Reddit API authentication

Authenticate(<twitter>)

Twitter API authentication

Authenticate(<youtube>)

Youtube API authentication

Collect

Collect()

Collect data from social media for generating networks

Collect(<twitter>)

Collect tweet data from twitter search

Collect(<youtube>)

Collect comments data for youtube videos

Collect(<reddit>)

Collect comments data from reddit threads

Create

Create()

Create networks from social media data

Create(<activity.twitter>)

Create twitter activity network

Create(<activity.youtube>)

Create youtube activity network

Create(<activity.reddit>)

Create reddit activity network

Create(<actor.twitter>)

Create twitter actor network

Create(<actor.youtube>)

Create youtube actor network

Create(<actor.reddit>)

Create reddit actor network

Create(<twomode.twitter>)

Create twitter 2-mode network

Create(<semantic.twitter>)

Create twitter semantic network

Helpers

AddText()

Add columns containing text data to network dataframes

AddText(<actor.youtube>)

Add columns containing text data to youtube actor network dataframes

AddText(<activity.reddit>)

Add columns containing text data to reddit activity network dataframes

AddText(<actor.reddit>)

Add columns containing text data to reddit actor network dataframes

AddUserData()

Add columns of user information as node attributes to network dataframes

AddUserData(<actor.twitter>)

Supplement twitter actor network by adding user profile attributes to nodes

AddVideoData()

Add columns of video information to network dataframes

AddVideoData(<actor.youtube>)

Add video information to youtube actor network dataframes

Graph()

Create an igraph graph from network

GetYoutubeVideoIDs()

Extract the ids from a list of youtube video URLs

ImportData()

Import collected data previously saved to file