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 matrix based on the interaction between countries. However, I want to count the number of interactions by the total number of an object.

Basic Example of Aspired Outcome

If in one row "England" occurs three times and "China" only one time, the result should be the following matrix.

         England  China
England    3        3
China      3        1

Reproducible example

df <- data.frame(ID = c(1,2,3,4), 
 V1 = c("England", "England", "China", "England"),
 V2 = c("Greece", "England", "Greece", "England"),
V32 = c("USA", "China", "Greece", "England"))

Accordingly, an example data frame currently looks like this:

ID  V1       V2       ...   V32
1   England  Greece         USA
2   England  England        China
3   China    Greece         Greece
4   England  England        England
.
.
.

Aspired outcome

I want to count (co-)occurrences row-wise and independent of order to get a (co-)occurrence matrix that accounts for low frequencies of edge loops (e.g. England-England), which leads to the following result:

         China   England   Greece   USA

China    2        2         2        0

England  2        6         1        1

Greece   2        1         3        1

USA      0        1         1        1

What has been tried so far

I've used igraph to get an adjacency matrix with co-occurrences. However, it calculates - as supposed to - not more than two interactions of the same two objects, leaving me with values far below actual frequency of objects by row/publication in some cases.

df <- data.frame(ID = c(1,2,3,4), 
 V1 = c("England", "England", "China", "England"),
 V2 = c("Greece", "England", "Greece", "England"),
V32 = c("USA", "China", "Greece", "England"))

# remove ID column

df[1] <- list(NULL)

# calculate co-occurrences and return as dataframe

library(igraph)
library(Matrix)

countrydf <- graph.data.frame(df)
countrydf2 <- as_adjacency_matrix(countrydf, type = "both", edges = FALSE)
countrydf3 <- as.data.frame(as.matrix(forceSymmetric(countrydf2)))

         China   England   Greece   USA

China    0        0         1        0

England  0        2         1        0

Greece   1        1         0        0

USA      0        0         0        0

I assume there has to be an easy solution using base and/or dplyr and /or table and/or reshape2 similar to [1], [2], [3], [4] or [5] but nothing has done the trick so far and I was not able to adjust the code to my needs. I've also tried to use [6] as a basis, however, the same issue applies here, too.

library(tidry)
library(dplyr)
library(stringr)


# collapse observations into one column

df2 <- df %>% unite(concat, V1:V32, sep = ",")

# calculate weights

df3 <- df2$concat %>%
  str_split(",") %>%
  lapply(function(x){
    expand.grid(x,x,x,x, w = length(x), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
  }) %>%
  bind_rows

df4 <- apply(df3[, -5], 1, sort) %>%
  t %>%
  data.frame(stringsAsFactors = FALSE) %>%
  mutate(w = df3$w)

I'd be glad if someone could point me in the right direction.