Gather average association strength

Takes an association pairs dataframe and collapses it to compute each variable/ids average strength. Used for normalizing pairs or investigating patterns in average strength.

gather_avg_strength(association_pairs, strength_column = "strength")

Arguments

association_pairs	dataframe with columns a and b representing the ids of the variables or nodes and columns strength that is a numeric indicator of strength of association (higher = stronger).
strength_column	Id of column that encodes the strength of the associations for pairs

Value

Dataframe with id and avg_strength columns for each unique variable in association pairs

Examples

gather_avg_strength(virus_net)
#> # A tibble: 586 x 2
#>    id                                      avg_strength
#>    <chr>                                          <dbl>
#>  1 Adelaide River virus                        0.00137 
#>  2 Adeno-associated virus-1                    0.00379 
#>  3 Adeno-associated virus-2                    0.00413 
#>  4 Adeno-associated virus-5                    0.00492 
#>  5 African green monkey polyomavirus           0.00391 
#>  6 African green monkey simian foamy virus     0.000166
#>  7 African horse sickness virus                0.00110 
#>  8 African swine fever virus                   0.000700
#>  9 Aichi virus                                 0.00492 
#> 10 Akabane virus                               0.00236 
#> # … with 576 more rows