foreign: Read and write BIF, NET, DSC and DOT files
In jtrecenti/bnlearn: Bayesian Network Structure Learning, Parameter Learning and Inference

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Author(s) References

Read networks saved from other programs into bn.fit objects, and dump bn and bn.fit objects into files for other programs to read.

# Old (non-XML) Bayesian Interchange format.
read.bif(file, debug = FALSE)
write.bif(file, fitted)

# Microsoft Interchange format.
read.dsc(file, debug = FALSE)
write.dsc(file, fitted)

# HUGIN flat network format.
read.net(file, debug = FALSE)
write.net(file, fitted)

# Graphviz DOT format.
write.dot(file, graph)

`file`	a connection object or a character string.
`fitted`	an object of class `bn.fit`.
`graph`	an object of class `bn` or `bn.fit`.
`debug`	a boolean value. If `TRUE` a lot of debugging output is printed; otherwise the function is completely silent.

read.bif, read.dsc and read.net return an object of class bn.fit.

write.bif, write.dsc, write.net and write.dot return NULL invisibly.

All the networks present in the Bayesian Network Repository have associated BIF, DSC and NET files that can be imported with read.bif, read.dsc and read.net.

HUGIN can import and export NET files; Netica can read (but not write) DSC files; and Genie can read and write both DSC and NET files.

DOT files can be read by Graphviz, Gephi and a variety of other programs.

Please note that these functions work on a "best effort" basis, as the parsing of these formats have been implementing by reverse engineering the file format from publicly available examples.

Marco Scutari

Bayesian Network Repository, http://www.bnlearn.com/bnrepository.

Genie, http://genie.sis.pitt.edu.

HUGIN Expert, http://www.hugin.com.

Netica, http://www.norsys.com/netica.html.

Graphviz, http://www.graphviz.org.

Gephi, http://gephi.org.

jtrecenti/bnlearn documentation built on May 20, 2019, 3:16 a.m.