buildNetwork: Build Network

In jhollist/snaWeb: Internet-based Social Network Analysis

Description

The buildNetwork function runs a Google 'related' search for the input sites or parses the site HTML for hyperlinked sites.

Usage

buildNetwork(sites = sites, searchtype = "related", snowball = FALSE,
  nodes = NULL, edges = NULL, excludesites = "none", delay = 1,
  maxurls = 10, max_depth = 5)

Arguments

sites	is a vector or json of web sites for the search.
searchtype	a vector. Type of links search. 'related','links' or 'both' (default is 'related').
snowball	a boolean. If TRUE snowball search results (default is FALSE).
nodes	a data frame. nodes to append to new search to (default is NULL).
edges	a data frame. edges to append to new search to (default is NULL).
excludesites	is a vector or json of web sites to be excluded from the search (default is none)
delay	(default is 0)
maxurls	Maximum urls returned in a "related" search (default is 10)
max_depth	Maximum depth a "linked" search will scrape

Value

What does this return?

Examples

## Not run: 
buildNetwork(sites='["http://npr.org"]',searchtype = "related")

## End(Not run)

jhollist/snaWeb documentation built on April 7, 2020, 12:49 a.m.