CreateEgoNetworkFromData: Create 'ego' networks from social media data

In SocialMediaLab: Tools for Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for Analysis

Description

This function creates 'ego' networks from social media data as a data.frame of class dataSource.*.ego. The networks are igraph objects.

Usage

CreateEgoNetworkFromData(x, writeToFile)

Arguments

x	a data.frame of class dataSource.*.ego
writeToFile	logical. If TRUE then the network is saved to file in current working directory (GRAPHML format), with filename denoting the current date/time and the type of network.

Value

An igraph graph object, with directed and weighted edges.

Note

Similarly named function CreateEgoNetwork is a function of both collecting data from social media and creating ego network. The current function only creates ego network out of collected social media data.

Author(s)

Timothy Graham <[e-mail]>, Robert Ackland<[e-mail]> & Chung-hong Chan <[e-mail]>

Examples

## Not run: 
myAppID <- "123456789098765"
myAppSecret <- "abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123ab"
instagram_oauth_token <- AuthenticateWithInstagramAPI(appID=myAppID,
appSecret=myAppSecret, useCachedToken=TRUE)
myUsernames <- c("senjohnmccain","obama")
instagramEgodata <- CollectEgoInstgram(username=myUsernames,
verbose=TRUE,degreeEgoNet=1,
waitForRateLimit=TRUE,getFollows=FALSE)
CreateEgoNetoworkFromData(instagramEgodata)
## the same as Create(instagramEgodata) or Create(instagramEgodata, "ego")

## End(Not run)

SocialMediaLab documentation built on May 29, 2017, 9:41 p.m.