plot_gexfjs: Visualizing GEXF graph files using gexf-js (legacy)

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Visualizing GEXF graph files using gexf-js (legacy)

Description

Uses the gexf-js JavaScript viewer by copying static files to a directory and optionally launching a local web server via the servr package. For the modern htmlwidget-based renderer, use plot.gexf or sigmajs.

Usage

gexf_js_config(
  dir,
  graphFile = "network.gexf",
  showEdges = TRUE,
  useLens = FALSE,
  zoomLevel = 0,
  curvedEdges = TRUE,
  edgeWidthFactor = 1,
  minEdgeWidth = 1,
  maxEdgeWidth = 50,
  textDisplayThreshold = 9,
  nodeSizeFactor = 1,
  replaceUrls = TRUE,
  showEdgeWeight = TRUE,
  showEdgeLabel = TRUE,
  sortNodeAttributes = TRUE,
  showId = TRUE,
  showEdgeArrow = TRUE,
  language = FALSE
)

plot_gexfjs(
  x,
  graphFile = "network.gexf",
  dir = tempdir(),
  overwrite = TRUE,
  httd.args = list(),
  copy.only = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

dir	Directory where files are copied (tempdir() by default).
graphFile	Name of the GEXF file written to dir.
showEdges	Logical scalar. Default state of the "show edges" button (nullable).
useLens	Logical scalar. Default state of the "use lens" button (nullable).
zoomLevel	Numeric scalar. Default zoom level. At zoom = 0, the graph should fill a 800x700px zone
curvedEdges	Logical scalar. False for curved edges, true for straight edges this setting can't be changed from the User Interface.
edgeWidthFactor	Numeric scalar. Change this parameter for wider or narrower edges this setting can't be changed from the User Interface.
minEdgeWidth	Numeric scalar.
maxEdgeWidth	Numeric scalar.
textDisplayThreshold	Numeric scalar.
nodeSizeFactor	Numeric scalar. Change this parameter for smaller or larger nodes this setting can't be changed from the User Interface.
replaceUrls	Logical scalar. Enable the replacement of Urls by Hyperlinks this setting can't be changed from the User Interface.
showEdgeWeight	Logical scalar. Show the weight of edges in the list this setting can't be changed from the User Interface.
showEdgeLabel	Logical scalar.
sortNodeAttributes	Logical scalar. Alphabetically sort node attributes.
showId	Logical scalar. Show the id of the node in the list this setting can't be changed from the User Interface.
showEdgeArrow	Logical scalar. Show the edge arrows when the edge is directed this setting can't be changed from the User Interface.
language	Either FALSE, or a character scalar with any of the supported languages.
x	An object of class gexf.
overwrite	Logical scalar. Overwrite existing files in dir.
httd.args	Further arguments passed to servr::httd.
copy.only	Logical. When TRUE, skip launching the server.
...	Further arguments passed to gexf_js_config.

Details

Currently, the only languages supported are: German (de), English (en), French (fr), Spanish (es), Italian (it), Finnish (fi), Turkish (tr), Greek (el), Dutch (nl)

The server is launched only when interactive() == TRUE and copy.only == FALSE.

References

gexf-js project website https://github.com/raphv/gexf-js.

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  path <- system.file("gexf-graphs/lesmiserables.gexf", package = "rgexf")
  graph <- read.gexf(path)
  plot_gexfjs(graph)
}

rgexf documentation built on July 24, 2026, 1:07 a.m.