neocache

neocache facilitates robust sampling of the Twitter graph. The basic idea is to save any data into a local cache as you as you get it. neocache is build on top of rtweet, Docker, and Neo4J.

Installation

You can install the development version of neocache with:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("alexpghayes/neocache")

library(neocache)

nc_sitrep()
#> 
#> ── Caches ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>   - aPPR (active) 
#>   - get_friends_test (active) 
#>   - HQWHHAKFKLRTCZLNQOSQ (active) 
#>   - test_cache (active)

Find the personalized pagerank of a Twitter user and cache the following network in the process

alexpghayes_ppr <- appr(
  neocache_graph(),
  "alexpghayes",
  epsilon = 1e-4
)

alexpghayes_ppr$stats