Also available from CRAN as dogesr
Package (with data) to work with the dogi and dogaresse of the
Venetian republic
and their relatives. Main intention is to analyze social networks
resulting from marriages and other interactions, but all kind of
useful data is (and will be) included in the package.
Install released versions (last one is 0.5.2) from CRAN as usual, or development version from here
library(devtools)
install_github("JJ/dogesr")It grew from the data used in this paper; please cite it if you are using this module:
@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.07334,
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2209.07334},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07334},
author = {Merelo-Guervós, J. J.},
keywords = {Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), Computers and Society (cs.CY), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
title = {What is a good doge? Analyzing the patrician social network of the Republic of Venice},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2022},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International}
}
You can retrieve this reference from the bibliography file along with other references used in examples.
This package includes a few vignettes. Once installed, write
vignette("dogesr") to check what's available. Also
vignette("doges-family-types")for how to use the family types data setvignette("doges-terms")to analyze the amount of time the doges lived/ruled using data provided in this package.vignette("doges-social-network")to get the marriage social network of doges and parents, and make some initial exploration.vignette("doges-split-social-network")to get the marriage social network of doges and parents for slices of time, from and to specific doges; this one shows how to get the social network before and after the Serrata.vignette("counting-doge-families")to work with a table of the families doges belonged to and how many times they actually "made doge".vignette("doge-types")to show the timeline of the different types of families that managed to "make doge".
Check available datasets with data(package="dogesr") once it has been loaded.
Data in its original format is stored in the
data-raw
directory. If you change that data anyhow, type make to rebuild the
R data files (contained in the data ) directory.
Any further change (columns and suchlike) will also require
modification of the documentation at the man directory.
Please check the
reports
subdirectory for published papers that use this library, and their
sources, which is released under a free license.
The contents of this repository are (c) JJ Merelo, 2022-2025, and are released
under the GPL 3 license. Please check the
LICENSE for details.