rbox: Construct the Relation-Box

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

Construct the Relation-Box

Description

Function to construct the Relation-Box of a multiple network

Usage

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

Arguments

w	an array with three dimensions of stacked matrices of generating relations.
transp	(logical) whether or not the transpose of each matrix in w should be included.
smpl	(logical) whether to simplify or not the strings of relations
k	length of the Relation-Box in z
tlbs	(optional) a vector with the labels for the 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.

Value

An object of the ‘Rel.Box’ class.

w	the primitive relations in the Relation-Box
W	the structure of the Relation-Box
lbs	the labels in the relational system
Note	(optional) Notes indicating the particularities in the input
Orels	the original labels of the relations
Srels	(optional) the simplified labels of the relations
Trels	(optional) the labels of the transposed relations
k	the maximal length of the word
z	the length of the Relation-Box in the z dimension

Note

Values of k until 9 are supported. With many types of relations, and when the order of the multiplex network is high, turning k to more than three may take a long time of computation.

Author(s)

Antonio Rivero Ostoic

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: 
rbox(incubA$IM)

## End(Not run)

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