RedditExtractoR (version 2.1.5)

user_network: User relationship network

Description

User relationship network

Usage

user_network(thread_df, include_author = TRUE, agg = FALSE)

Arguments

thread_df

a data frame with columns structure, user, author -- designed for the output of the reddit_content() or get_reddit() functions

include_author

a TRUE/FALSE indicator for whether or not the author should be considered in the resulting network, if TRUE, comments at the top of the tree will be treated as relies to the original posts, otherwise these comments will be disregarded

agg

a TRUE/FALSE indicator that allows you to aggregate results, if FALSE, the results will remain disaggregated

Value

a list with df (effectively an edge list without IDs), node_df (node list), edge_df (edge list), igrpah (igraph object), plot (plot object)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# load libraries
library(dplyr)
library(RedditExtractoR)
target_urls <- reddit_urls(search_terms="cats", subreddit="Art", cn_threshold=50)
target_df <- target_urls %>% 
filter(num_comments==min(target_urls$num_comments)) %$% 
URL %>% reddit_content # get the contents of a small thread
network_list <- target_df %>% user_network(include_author=FALSE, agg=TRUE) # extract the network
network_list$plot # explore the plot
str(network_list$df) # check out the contents
# }