[R] Advice on visual graph packages

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 19:23:06 CET 2007


Also try gplot in the sna package to see if it does what you want.
Here are some examples from the r-help archives:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/87003.html

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/84442.html



On 2/13/07, Jarrett Byrnes <jebyrnes at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Hey, all.  I'm looking for packages that are good at two things
>
> 1) Drawing directed graphs (i.e nodes and edges), both with single
> and double headed arrows, as well as allowing for differences in line
> width and solid versus dashed.  Note: I've tried Rgraphviz here, but
> have run into some problems (which seem fixable and I may go with it
> in the end), and it doesn't satisfy need # 2 (which would be ideal if
> there is a package that does both).
>
> 2) Allowing a user to create a directed graph, and have some text
> object created that can be reprocessed easily reprocessed into a
> matrix representation, or other representation of my choosing.   I've
> tried dynamicGraph, but it seems buggy, and continually either
> crashes, behaves very erratically (nodes disappearing when I modify
> edges), nor is it clear from the UI how one outputs a new graph, nor
> how one even accesses many graph attributes.  This may be my own
> ignorance on the latter.
>
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jarrett
>
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