Networked coincidences.

timeCoin produces a timeCoin object.

timeCoin(nodes, name = "name", start = "start", end = "end", group = NULL,
         text = NULL, main = NULL, note = NULL, info = NULL, events = NULL,
         eventChild = "eventChild", eventParent = "eventParent", eventTime = "Time",
         eventColor = NULL, eventShape = NULL,
         cex = 1, language = c("en","es","ca"), dir = NULL)

Arguments

nodes	a data frame with at least three vectors of names, start and end.
name	name of the vector with names in the nodes data frame.
start	name of the vector with starts in the nodes data frame.
end	name of the vector with ends in the nodes data frame.
group	name of the vector with groups in the nodes data frame.
text	name of the vector with html text in the nodes data frame.
main	upper title of the graph.
note	lower title of the graph.
info	name of the vector with information to display in a panel in the nodes data frame.
events	a data frame of events realted to nodes with three columns: node name, event name and event date
eventChild	name of the vector with sources in the events data frame.
eventParent	name of the vector with targets in the events data frame.
eventTime	name of the vector with time points in the events data frame.
eventColor	name of the vector with color criteria in the events data frame.
eventShape	name of the vector with shape criteria in the events data frame.
cex	number indicating the amount by which plotting text should be scaled relative to the default. Default = 1.
language	a character vector (es=spanish; en=english; ca=catalan).
dir	a "character" string representing the directory where the web files will be saved.

Value

Object of class timeCoin.

Author

Modesto Escobar, Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca. See https://sociocav.usal.es/blog/modesto-escobar/

Examples

# Database of 19th century sociologists
data(sociologists)
timeCoin(sociologists,"name","birth","death","birthcountry")
#> 
#> Nodes(33):
#>                   name birth death birthcountry              movements
#>              Karl Marx  1818  1883      Germany                Marxism
#>       Friedrich Engels  1820  1895      Germany                Marxism
#>         Hebert Spencer  1820  1903           UK           Evolutionism
#>        Wilhelm Dilthey  1833  1911      Germany Interpretive sociology
#>  William Graham Sumner  1840  1910          USA           Evolutionism
#>        Vilfredo Pareto  1848  1923       France              Formalism
#> ...
#>