In gregmacfarlane/forceGraph:

igraph

The igraph package is popular for studying networks of various kinds in R. The igraph library comes with its own plotting mechanism, but it is static and difficult to control.

library(igraph)
g <- graph.atlas(900)
plot(g)

networkD3

Recently, the networkD3 package has included a function to make pretty html plots of graph-style objects. Unfortunately, the networkd3 library is somewhat picky in its formulation, so we have created a function that will plot the graph automatically.

library(networkD3)
data("MisLinks")
data("MisNodes")
forceNetwork(
  Links = MisLinks, Nodes = MisNodes, 
  Source = "source", Target = "target", Value = "value", 
  NodeID = "name", Group = "group", opacity = 0.9
)

forceNetwork

The simpleNetwork function is better than the default plot.igraph, but is not flexible enough.

gregmacfarlane/forceGraph documentation built on May 17, 2019, 8:35 a.m.