Function Reference

Available functions and helpers

vosonSML-package vosonSML

vosonSML: Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for Analysis

Authenticate

Authenticate()

Create a credential object to access social media APIs

Authenticate(<mastodon>)

Mastodon API authentication

Authenticate(<youtube>)

YouTube API authentication

Authenticate(<reddit>)

Reddit API authentication

Authenticate(<web>)

Web crawler authentication

Authenticate(<twitter>)

Twitter API authentication

Collect

Collect()

Collect data from social media for generating networks

Collect(<search.mastodon>)

Collect post data from mastodon search

Collect(<thread.mastodon>)

Collect posts data from mastodon threads

Collect(<youtube>)

Collect comments data for YouTube videos

Collect(<listing.reddit>) collect_reddit_listings()

Collect reddit thread listings from subreddits

Collect(<thread.reddit>) collect_reddit_threads()

Collect comments data from reddit threads

Collect(<web>) collect_web_hyperlinks()

Collect hyperlinks from web pages

Collect(<search.twitter>)

Collect tweet data from twitter search

Collect(<timeline.twitter>)

Collect tweet data from twitter timelines

Create

Create()

Create networks from social media data

Create(<activity.mastodon>)

Create mastodon activity network

Create(<activity.youtube>)

Create YouTube activity network

Create(<activity.reddit>)

Create reddit activity network

Create(<activity.web>)

Create web activity network

Create(<activity.twitter>)

Create twitter activity network

Create(<actor.mastodon>)

Create mastodon actor network

Create(<actor.youtube>)

Create YouTube actor network

Create(<actor.reddit>)

Create reddit actor network

Create(<actor.web>)

Create web actor network

Create(<actor.twitter>)

Create twitter actor network

Create(<twomode.twitter>)

Create twitter 2-mode network

Create(<semantic.twitter>)

Create twitter semantic network

Supplemental

AddText() add_text()

Add columns containing text data to network dataframes

AddText(<activity.mastodon>)

Add columns containing text data to mastodon activity network dataframes

AddText(<actor.mastodon>)

Add columns containing text data to mastodon actor network dataframes

AddText(<activity.youtube>) AddText(<actor.youtube>)

Add columns containing text data to YouTube activity 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

AddText(<activity.twitter>)

Add columns containing text data to twitter activity network dataframes

AddText(<actor.twitter>)

Add columns containing text data to twitter actor network dataframes

AddText(<semantic.twitter>)

Add columns containing text data to twitter semantic network dataframes

AddText(<twomode.twitter>)

Add columns containing text data to twitter 2mode network dataframes

AddUserData() add_users()

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

AddUserData(<twomode.twitter>)

Supplement twitter 2mode network by adding user profile attributes to nodes

AddVideoData() add_videos()

Add columns of video information to network dataframes

AddVideoData(<actor.youtube>)

Add video information to youtube actor network dataframes

Helpers

Graph()

Create an igraph graph from network

Merge() merge_data()

Merge collected data

MergeFiles() merge_files()

Merge collected data files

ImportRtoot() import_rtoot()

Import rtoot collected data

ImportRtweet() import_rtweet()

Import rtweet collected data

auth_twitter_app()

Twitter App API authentication

auth_twitter_dev()

Twitter Dev API authentication

auth_twitter_user()

Twitter User API authentication