Time incidences.

Convert a data frame with two numbers (normally a beginning year and end year) into an incidences matrix whose rows are the intermediate numbers, and whose columns are the content of the names column.

incTime(data, name = "name", beginning = "birth", end= "death")

Arguments

data	a data frame a name and two numbers.
name	Column with the names (default= "name").
beginning	Column with the beginning number to include (default= "birth").
end	Column with the end number to include (default= "death").

Value

A data frame in which the two first columns are source and target. The rest of the columns are sim.=(1+threshold-real difference) and dist.=(difference between numbers)

Author

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

Examples

# From sociologists data
data("sociologists")
head(incTime(sociologists))[,1:5]
#>      Auguste Comte Karl Marx Herbert Spencer Friedrich Engels
#> 1798             1         0               0                0
#> 1799             1         0               0                0
#> 1800             1         0               0                0
#> 1801             1         0               0                0
#> 1802             1         0               0                0
#> 1803             1         0               0                0
#>      William Graham Sumner
#> 1798                     0
#> 1799                     0
#> 1800                     0
#> 1801                     0
#> 1802                     0
#> 1803                     0