rbox: Construct the Relation-Box of Multiple Network

In multiplex: Algebraic Tools for the Analysis of Multiple Social Networks

Construct the Relation-Box of Multiple Network

Description

Function to construct the Relation-Box of a multiple network.

Usage

rbox(w, transp = FALSE, smpl = FALSE, k = 3, tlbs)

Arguments

w	Array with three dimensions of stacked matrices with generating relations.
transp	(optional and logical) Include matrix transpose in w?
smpl	(optional and logical) Simplify strings of relations?
k	Length of Relation-Box (in z).
tlbs	(optional) Vector with labels for transpose relations.

Details

If transp = TRUE the labels of the transpose are toggle case of the labels of the original matrices, and in such case, it is advised to simplify the strings of relations. To prevent a transposed structure for a certain array of w, use NA in the vector the transpose labels tlbs corresponding to the respective matrix.

Values of k until 9 are supported.

Value

An object of the ‘Rel.Box’ class.

w	Primitive relations in Relation-Box
W	Structure of Relation-Box
lbs	Labels in relational system
Note	(optional) Notes indicating the particularities in the input
Orels	Original labels of relations
Srels	(optional) Simplified labels of relations
Trels	(optional) Transposed relation labels
k	Maximal length of the word
z	Length of the Relation-Box in the z dimension

Warning

May take a long time of computation with many types of relations and when the order of the multiplex network is high, and turning k to more than three.

References

Winship, C. and M.J. Mandel “Roles and positions: A critique and extension of the blockmodelling approach,” Sociological Methodology, 314-344. 1983.

See Also

cph, semigroup, hierar

Examples

# load the data
data("incubA")

# relation box of image matrices in dataset
## Not run: 
incubA |> getElement("IM") |> 
  rbox()

## End(Not run)

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