dyncohort: Interactive graphs of dynamic cohorts.

In netCoin: Interactive Analytic Networks

Interactive graphs of dynamic cohorts.

Description

dyncohort produces interactive graphs representing dynamic cohorts. Two periods or lifes belongs to the same cohort if there are a difference of years in their start less or equal to a given number. In case of people's life, 15 or 25 are appropiate quantities to set. If year is equal to 0, a cohort is defined a those periods or lifes that begin at the same year.

Usage

dyncohort(periods, name="name", start="start", fields=names(periods), 
          years=0, igraph=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

periods	a data frame with at least two vectors with name and start of the periods or lives.
name	name of the vector with names in the data frame.
start	name of the vector with starts in the data frame.
fields	vector of the names of the periods data frame to be taken into account.
years	number of years to be considered as length of the cohort.
igraph	produces an igraph object instead of a netCoin class.
...	Any netCoin argument.

Value

This function creates a timeCoin object (or igraph) and, if plotted, a folder in the computer with an HTML document named index.html which contains the produced graph. This file can be directly opened with your browser and sent to a web server to work properly.

A netCoin object has three elements:

nodes	A data frame with the periods.
links	A data frame with the events.
options	A list of options for the interactive graph.

Note

Periods could be the life of people, in whose case start is their birth year.

Author(s)

Modesto Escobar, Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca. See https://sociocav.usal.es/blog/modesto-escobar/

See Also

timeCoin and coexist

Examples

# With sociologists data.
data(sociologists)
dyncohort(sociologists, start="birth")
# Condider 15 year dynamic cohort:
sociologists$picture <- system.file("extdata", sociologists$picture,
        package="netCoin") # copy path to the picture field
dyncohort(sociologists, start="birth", year=15, image="picture", imageName="name")

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