In knapply/ironmarch: Data and Analytical Routines related to IronMarch

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Introduction

{ironmarch} contains data and analytical routines related to ironmarch.org, a now-defunct neo-Nazi/white supremacist message board.

The site data were extracted from the MySQL database that was originally posted on Internet Archive. You can find more information in Bellingcat's description.

Installation

file_size <- paste(round(sum(file.size(dir("data/", full.names = TRUE))) / 1e6, digits = 0L), "MB")

Before installing, understand that this is not a typical R package. The /data folder alone is r file_size.

if (!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("knapply/ironmarch")

Usage

library(ironmarch)

Builders

build_*() functions reconcile and merge data from the relevant im_core* and im_orig* data frames.

build_messages()
build_members()

Original Site Data

The site data are stored in a series of named lists containing data frames, all of which are prefixed with im_.

• The following lists correspond to tables whose original names are prefixed with core_, orig_, and forums_:
  • ironmarch::im_core_dfs
  • ironmarch::im_orig_dfs
  • ironmarch::im_forums_dfs
• The remaining tables are stored in ironmarch::im_other_dfs.

The following code provides examples of accessing individual tables from each the im_* lists.

im_core_dfs$core_members
im_orig_dfs$orig_members
im_forums_dfs$forums_posts
im_other_dfs$calendar_calendars

knitr::include_graphics("man/figures/use-all-the-data.jpeg")

core_*

im_core_dfs

orig_*

im_orig_dfs

forums_*

im_forums_dfs

Other

im_other_dfs

knapply/ironmarch documentation built on July 14, 2020, 12:50 a.m.