AddUserData.twomode.twitter {vosonSML}

Supplement twitter 2mode network by adding user profile attributes to nodes

Description

Network is supplemented with additional downloaded user information applied as 2mode node attributes.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'twomode.twitter'
AddUserData(
  net,
  data,
  lookupUsers = FALSE,
  twitterAuth = NULL,
  retryOnRateLimit = TRUE,
  refresh = FALSE,
  rmMisc = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

net

A named list of dataframes nodes and edges generated by Create.

data

A dataframe generated by Collect.

lookupUsers

Logical. Lookup user profile metadata using the twitter API for any users data missing from the collect data set. For example fetches profile information for users that became nodes during network creation because they were mentioned in a tweet but did not author any tweets themselves. Default is FALSE.

twitterAuth

A twitter authentication object from Authenticate.

retryOnRateLimit

Logical. When the API rate-limit is reached should the collection wait and resume when it resets. Default is TRUE.

refresh

Logical. Lookup and replace all available user metadata. Default is FALSE.

rmMisc

Logical. Remove miscellaneous user data columns such as user profile colors and other visual elements. Default is TRUE.

verbose

Logical. Output additional information. Default is FALSE.

...

Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

Network as a named list of three dataframes containing $nodes, $edges. Nodes include columns for additional user profile data and metrics. Referenced users for which no data was found are returned in missing_users.

Note

Using the standard twitter API this function is limited to collecting profiles of 90000 users per 15 mins before hitting the rate limit.

Examples

## Not run: 
# add user info to a twitter 2mode network
net_2mode <- data_collect |>
  Create("twomode") |>
  AddUserData(data_collect)

## End(Not run)