Take a data frame and create a dataframe of unique nodes containing their dataframe unique ids, and a 'node id' as well.

make_nodes(attribute_data, node_col, ...)

Arguments

attribute_data

Dataframe containing node attribute data

node_col

Column name in attribute_data that contains the unique common node identifier

...

Attribute variables in attribute_data. Note the function assumes there is only one value for each attribute per node.

Value

A dataframe of nodes as per node_col