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hierformR

Hierarchy Network Formation

Authors - James P. Curley (Columbia University) & Ivan D. Chase (Stony Brook University)

R Code for analyzing social hierarchy and network formation. Based upon algorithms described in Lindquist & Chase, 2009, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

  • "Data-Based Analysis of Winner-Loser Models of Hierarchy Formation in Animals" -

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11538-008-9371-9

Installation

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("jalapic/hierformR")

library(hierformR)

Quick Example

Example dataframe of winners and losers:

df<-data.frame(winner=c(1,2,3,1,2,3,2,1,2,3,3,1,2,3,4,3,1,3,2,1,1,1,1,2,2),
loser=c(2,4,4,4,3,2,1,3,3,4,4,2,3,2,3,4,2,4,3,3,3,2,2,4,3)
)

   winner loser
1       1     2
2       2     4
3       3     4
4       1     4
5       2     3
6       3     2
7       2     1
8       1     3
9       2     3
10      3     4
11      3     4
12      1     2
13      2     3
14      3     2
15      4     3
16      3     4
17      1     2
18      3     4
19      2     3
20      1     3
21      1     3
22      1     2
23      1     2
24      2     4
25      2     3

For each row, get last interaction between each pair of nodes - return a list of same length as df

lastints(df)

Get directed network object based on most recent interactions between each pair of nodes

lastnet(df)

Return the characteristics of the network relevant for determining its current state

gs <- lastnet(df)
g <- gs[[25]]
netchar(g)

  X003 X012 X021D X021U X021C X030T X030C maxdom noedges nonodes distance degreediff
     0    0     0     0     0     4     0      3       6       4        1          3

The most useful function is addstates. This will take any winner-loser dataframe and add the id and class of the states. Note - whilst the functions above work for directed networks of any size, this function is specifically for networks with four nodes:

addstates(df)

   winner loser id class
1       1     2  1     1
2       2     4  3     L
3       3     4 13     C
4       1     4 22    Ht
5       2     3 32    Ft
6       3     2 33    Ft
7       2     1 32    Ft
8       1     3 40    Si
9       2     3 38    St
10      3     4 38    St
11      3     4 38    St
12      1     2 38    St
13      2     3 38    St
14      3     2 38    St
15      4     3 39    Si
16      3     4 38    St
17      1     2 38    St
18      3     4 38    St
19      2     3 38    St
20      1     3 38    St
21      1     3 38    St
22      1     2 38    St
23      1     2 38    St
24      2     4 38    St
25      2     3 38    St

Contact me at: jc3181 AT columbia DOT edu

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Install

install.packages('hierformR')

Monthly Downloads

2

Version

0.1.0

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

James Curley

Last Published

June 10th, 2016

Functions in hierformR (0.1.0)

lastints

Get last interaction between each pair of nodes
addstates

Add State ids and classes
rowmatch

Match rows of dataframes
csf

Determine class-stability factor (CSF)
stateclass

Find State Class
delete_isolates

Delete isolated nodes from network
netchar

Get characteristics of a directed graph
stateclasses

State classes of 41 network states
lastnet

Get last interaction between each pair of nodes
csf_n

Determine class-stability factor (CSF) for specific number of links
stateid

Find State ID
states

Characteristics of 41 network states for 4 node graphs
wldf

Generate random winner-loser dataframe