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PURPOSE Convert UCINET categorical attribute files into a Pajek file.

DESCRIPTION Converts UCINET categorical attribute files into Pajek format ie Pajek clu files. The conversion can take a matrix of attributes and create a set of Pajek clu files one for each column of the matrix. These files can be used in Pajek to color the nodes according to a particular attribute.

PARAMETERS

(Input) Attribute dataset
Name of file containing categorical actor attributes, given as a vector of shared attributes so that (1,2,3,1,2,2) means that actors 1 and 4 share the same attribute actors 2,5,and 6 share the same attribute and actor 3 has a different attribute from all the others. If there is more than one attribute this can be combined into an attribute matrix with the rows representing the actors and each column corresponding to a different attribute.

Output file(s) prefix:
Name of Pajek attribute file to be created. If there is more than one attribute then one file will be created for each attribute with the same file name but with the column number added as the last character in the name. Pajek categorical attribute files have the file extension .clu.

LOG FILE Lists the Pajek clu files created

TIMING O(N)

COMMENTS None.

REFERENCES None.