edges_from_text function

Edges from text

Edges from text

Get edges from data.frame of tweets.

gt_edges_from_text(data, id, source, tweets, ...) gt_edges_from_text_( data, id = "status_id", source = "screen_name", tweets = "text", ... )

Arguments

  • data: Data.frame of tweets, usually returned by the rtweet package.
  • id: tweets unique id.
  • source: Author of tweets.
  • tweets: Column containing tweets.
  • ...: any other column name.

Returns

An object of class graphTweets.

Details

The tl arguments stands for tolower and allows converting the #hashtags to lower case as these often duplicated, i.e.: #python #Python.

Functions

  • gt_edges - Build networks of users.
  • gt_co_edges - Build networks of users to hashtags.

Examples

# simulate dataset tweets <- data.frame( text = c("I tweet @you about @him and @her", "I tweet @me about @you"), screen_name = c("me", "him"), retweet_count = c(19, 5), status_id = c(1, 2), hashtags = c("rstats", "Python"), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) tweets %>% gt_edges_from_text(status_id, screen_name, text)
  • Maintainer: John Coene
  • License: MIT + file LICENSE
  • Last published: 2020-01-08