Generate a multidimensional array for window and weight parameters

This function constructs a multidimensional array representing all combinations of sender(s), receiver(s), and mode(s), with an additional axis for weight and window parameters. The resulting array can be used to efficiently look up or modify window and weight values for each unique combination in your data, which is useful for network accumulation and modeling.

Usage

context_tensor(
  df,
  sender_cols = NULL,
  receiver_cols = NULL,
  mode_column = ATTR_NAMES$CONTEXT_ID,
  default_window = 1,
  default_weight = 1
)

Arguments

df

A data.frame containing the data to extract unique values for senders, receivers, and modes.

sender_cols

Character vector of column names in `df` to use as sender(s). Can be empty or NULL if not applicable.

receiver_cols

Character vector of column names in `df` to use as receiver(s). Can be empty or NULL if not applicable.

mode_column

Character string giving the column name in `df` to use as the mode (e.g., modality, channel). Can be empty or NULL if not applicable.

default_window

Numeric value to use as the default window for all combinations (default: 1).

default_weight

Numeric value to use as the default weight for all combinations (default: 1).

Value

A multidimensional array with dimensions [sender(s), receiver(s), mode(s), weight/window], where the last axis has two levels: "weight" and "window". The array is initialized with the default weight and window values, and has named dimensions for easy indexing.

Examples

df <- data.frame(sender = c("A", "B"), receiver = c("X", "Y"), mode = c("chat", "resource"))
arr <- context_tensor(df, sender_cols = "sender", receiver_cols = "receiver", mode_column = "mode")
arr["A", "X", "chat", "weight"] # Access the weight for sender A, receiver X, mode chat
#> [1] 1