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.

Value

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)
#> $edges
#> NULL
#>