transCruncher: Summarize results of transitivityChecker

In eliotmiller/networkTricks: Functions for analyzing social interactions

Description

Use previously run results of transitivityChecker to summarize transitivity of networks, possibly over multiple runs of transitivityChecker.

Usage

transCruncher(network.size, conservative, read.wd)

Arguments

network.size	The size of the subnetworks over which the user would like to summarize network transitivity.
conservative	Whether to summarize results over calls to transitivityChecker that were thresholded according to a conservative (TRUE) or a liberal (FALSE) rule.
read.wd	The path where the results are saved.

Details

This function is used to summarize the transitivity of a larger network as assessed at a given subnetwork size and tie-handling method (conservative or not). For example, a series of analyses at the same subnetwork size and tie-handling method but varying threshold might be run, then this function would summarize the results.

Value

A list of result objects. First, a list, where each element in that list is a data frame of results at a given threshold. That data frame provides the number of total subnetworks that each species was involved in, how many of those were intransitive, and the proportion of intransitivie subnetworks each was involved in. Second, a data frame summarizing the total number of transitive, intransitive, and NA subnetworks in the larger network.

References

Miller, E. T., D. N. Bonter, C. Eldermire, B. G. Freeman, E. I. Greig, L. J. Harmon, C. Lisle, and W. M. Hochachka. 2017. Fighting over food unites the birds of North America in a continental dominance hierarchy. biorxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/104133

Examples

## Not run: 
#load in the example data
data(exInput)

#look at transitivity of dyads
transitivityChecker(disp.input=exInput, network.size=2, cutoff=0.5,
  conservative=TRUE, write.wd=tempdir(), cores=4)

#assess transitivity of these dyads
transCruncher(2, TRUE, tempdir())

## End(Not run)

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