ITNr (version 0.3.0)

RegionalBrokerage: ITN Gould-Fernandez Brokerage Analysis

Description

This function conducts Gould-Fernandez Brokerage Analysis for the regional partition

Usage

RegionalBrokerage(gs, filename)

Arguments

gs

International Trade Network - igraph object

filename

Filename for the Brokerage Analysis

Value

Results Dataframe

References

Gould, R. V. and Fernandez, R. M. (1989) Structures of mediation: A formal approach to brokerage in transaction networks, Sociological methodology, 19(1989), pp. 89<U+2013>126.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
##Load graph
data("ELEnet16")

##Otherwise download data from WITS and create an
##International Trade Network using WITSclean()

##Calculate Regional Brokerage
REGkey<-RegionalBrokerage(ELEnet16,"ELE_REG_BROKERAGE")

# }