graph.from.spells: Create an igraph object from position spells

In antongrau/eliter: Contains the Danish Elite Network for 2012 and 2017 with analytical functions.

Create an igraph object from position spells

Description

Makes a graph from a den object with time spells e.g. a row looks like this; NAME = Sam Samsen, AFFILIATION = Samson affiliates, PERSON_START = "2009-08-03", PERSON_END = "2009-12-02". PERSON_START and PERSON_END has to be Date objects, see as.Date and lubridate.

Usage

graph.from.spells(
  den,
  diagonal = FALSE,
  minimum.duration = 1,
  reference.month = strptime("1900-01-01", format = "%Y-%m-%d")
)

Arguments

den	a den class object
diagonal	if TRUE self ties, sometimes called loops, are included
minimum.duration	the minimum edge duration in number of days
reference.month	all dates are converted to the number of months since the reference month. This is to save costly conversions between character and date formats.

Value

an igraph object

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