voson.tcn (version 0.5.0)

tcn_network: Generate network from conversation tweets

Description

Creates the nodes and edges for a Twitter conversation network. An "activity" type network with tweets as nodes, or an "actor" type with users as nodes can be created.

Usage

tcn_network(data = NULL, type = "actor")

Value

Named list of dataframes for network nodes and edges.

Arguments

data

Named list. Dataframes of threaded conversation tweets and users collected by get_threads function.

type

Character string. Type of network to generate, either "actor" or "activity". Default is "actor".

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# generate twitter conversation network
network <- tcn_network(tweets, "activity")

# network nodes and edges
network$nodes
network$edges
}