How to calculate a (co-)occurrence matrix from a data frame with several columns using R?

Question

I\'m a rookie in R and currently working with collaboration data in the form of an edge list with 32 columns and around 200.000 rows. I want to create a (co-)occurrence matr

Answer 1

There may be better ways to do this, but try:

library(tidyverse)

df1 <- df %>%
pivot_longer(-ID, names_to = "Category", values_to = "Country") %>%
xtabs(~ID + Country, data = ., sparse = FALSE) %>% 
crossprod(., .) 

df_diag <- df %>% 
pivot_longer(-ID, names_to = "Category", values_to = "Country") %>%
mutate(Country2 = Country) %>%
xtabs(~Country + Country2, data = ., sparse = FALSE) %>% 
diag()

diag(df1) <- df_diag 

df1

Country   China England Greece USA
  China       2       2      2   0
  England     2       6      1   1
  Greece      2       1      3   1
  USA         0       1      1   1