vosonSML (version 0.35.1)

Create.actor.mastodon: Create mastodon actor network

Description

Creates a mastodon actor network from posts. Mastodon users who have posted are actor nodes. The created network is directed with edges representing replies.

Usage

# S3 method for actor.mastodon
Create(
  datasource,
  type,
  subtype = NULL,
  inclMentions = TRUE,
  ...,
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Value

Network as a named list of two dataframes containing $nodes and $edges.

Arguments

datasource

Collected social media data with "datasource" and "mastodon" class names.

type

Character string. Type of network to be created, set to "actor".

subtype

Character string. Subtype of actor network to be created. Can be set to "server". Default is NULL.

inclMentions

Logical. Create edges for users mentioned or tagged in posts. Default is TRUE.

...

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

writeToFile

Logical. Write data to file. Default is FALSE.

verbose

Logical. Output additional information. Default is TRUE.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# create a mastodon actor network
actor_net <- mastodon_data |> Create("actor")

# create a mastodon server relations network
actor_net <- mastodon_data |> Create("actor", "server")
}