R can also be used to make interactive network graphs with the htmlwidgets framework that translates r code to javascript.
Interactive network diagram in r.
And visualizing networks on geographic maps.
This is a comprehensive tutorial on network visualization with r.
It covers data input and formats visualization basics parameters and layouts for one mode and bipartite graphs.
We ll use the phone call2 data in the navdata r package which is a list containing the nodes and the edges list prepared in the chapter ref network visualization essentials from the phone call data.
The networkd3 package allows to build interactive network diagram directly from r.
This post explains how to use the library with reproducible examples.
To build interactive network visualizations you can use particular packages in r that are all using javascript libraries.
Visnetwork has many.
It s compatible with shiny r markdown documents and rstudio viewer.
This post begins with a short introduction to the basic vocabulary of network analysis followed by a discussion of the process for getting data into the proper structure for network analysis.
Start by loading the tidyverse r package and the phone call2 demo data sets.
Our favorite package for this visualization task is visnetwork which uses vis js javascript library and is based on htmlwidgets.