collapse_network: Collapse temporal activity to a static weighted network

In Dynet: Tidy Temporal Network Analysis

Collapse temporal activity to a static weighted network

Description

Creates a static cograph network from the exact observed, endpoint-valid activity in a requested time range. Every collapsed edge retains all common duration summaries, so choosing one weighting does not discard the others.

Usage

collapse_network(
  dn,
  start = NULL,
  end = NULL,
  weight = c("binary", "union_duration", "total_duration", "duration_fraction",
    "spell_count", "weight_sum", "weighted_duration", "latest_weight"),
  sessions = c("bounded", "collapse", "separate"),
  censored = c("include", "exclude")
)

Arguments

dn	A temporal network from dynet() or as_dynet().
start, end	Collapse bounds. Default to the observed range. Positive intervals are clipped to ⁠[start, end]⁠; genuine points at either bound are retained. An end before start raises a dynet_bad_input error.
weight	Edge field used as the cograph weight: "binary" (the default), "union_duration", "total_duration", "duration_fraction", "spell_count", "weight_sum", "weighted_duration", or "latest_weight". Every field is present in the edge table whichever one is chosen; this names only the one cograph draws with.
sessions	Session handling. "bounded", the default, respects session-specific endpoint activity before pooling, "collapse" erases session labels, and "separate" returns one collapsed cograph network per session.
censored	Whether raw edge and vertex identities carrying an explicit censor flag are "include"d, the default, or "exclude"d. Exclusion drops the whole raw identity, never one observed fragment alone.

Value

A dynet_collapsed cograph netobject, whose two tidy tables are reached with as.data.frame(x, what = "edges") and as.data.frame(x, what = "nodes"). With sessions = "separate", a named dynet_collapsed_list of such objects, one per session.

The edge table carries one row per collapsed pair and every weighting at once, so choosing one does not discard the others: from, to, binary (1 for a pair that was ever active), union_duration (time the pair was active, overlaps counted once), total_duration (summed spell lengths, overlaps counted twice), duration_fraction (union_duration over the pair's joint activity opportunity, NA when that opportunity is zero), spell_count, weight_sum, weighted_duration (weight times duration, summed), latest_weight (the weight of the last spell to end), first and last (the pair's earliest onset and latest terminus), and the activity.duration and activity.count aliases for compatibility with networkDynamic::network.collapse().

The node table carries one row per vertex, with name, any static vertex attributes the network was built with, activity_duration (time the vertex was active, overlaps counted once) and its activity.duration alias.

Examples

dn <- dynet(data.frame(
  from = c("A", "A"), to = c("B", "B"),
  start = c(0, 1), end = c(2, 3)
))
flat <- collapse_network(dn, weight = "union_duration")
as.data.frame(flat)

Dynet documentation built on Oct. 7, 2026, 5:08 p.m.