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

An option using base::table:

df <- data.frame(ID = c(1,2,3,4), 
    V1 = c("England", "England", "China", "England"),
    V2 = c("Greece", "England", "Greece", "England"),
    V3 = c("USA", "China", "Greece", "England"))

#get paired combi and remove those from same country
pairs <- as.data.frame(do.call(rbind, 
    by(df, df$ID, function(x) t(combn(as.character(x[-1L]), 2L)))))
pairs <- pairs[pairs$V1!=pairs$V2, ]

#repeat data frame with columns swap so that 
#upper and lower tri have same numbers and all countries are shown
pairs <- rbind(pairs, data.frame(V1=pairs$V2, V2=pairs$V1))

#tabulate pairs
tab <- table(pairs)

#set diagonals to be the count of countries
cnt <- c(table(unlist(df[-1L])))
diag(tab) <- cnt[names(diag(tab))]

tab

output:

         V2
V1        China England Greece USA
  China       2       2      2   0
  England     2       6      1   1
  Greece      2       1      3   1
  USA         0       1      1   1