vosonSML (version 0.32.7)

AddText.actor.youtube: Add columns containing text data to YouTube activity network dataframes

Description

Text comments are added to the network as node attributes.

Text comments are added to the network as edge attributes. References to actors are detected at the beginning of comments and edges redirected to that actor instead if they differ from the top-level comment author.

Usage

# S3 method for activity.youtube
AddText(net, data, ...)
# S3 method for actor.youtube
AddText(net, data, repliesFromText = FALSE, atRepliesOnly = TRUE, ...)

Value

Network as a named list of two dataframes containing $nodes and $edges including columns containing text data.

Network as a named list of two dataframes containing $nodes and $edges including columns containing text data.

Arguments

net

A named list of dataframes nodes and edges generated by Create.

data

A dataframe generated by Collect.

...

Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

repliesFromText

Logical. If comment text for an edge begins with screen_name change the edge to be directed to screen_name - if different from the top level comment author that the reply comment was posted to. Default is FALSE.

atRepliesOnly

Logical. Comment screen_names must begin with an '@' symbol to be redirected. Default is TRUE.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# add text to an activity network
net_activity <- collect_yt |>
  Create("activity") |> AddText(collect_yt)

# network
net_activity$nodes
net_activity$edges
}

if (FALSE) {
# add text to an actor network ignoring references to actors at
# the beginning of comment text
net_actor <- collect_yt |>
  Create("actor") |>
  AddText(collect_yt, repliesFromText = FALSE)

# network
net_actor$nodes
net_actor$edges
}