[R] Nash equilibrium and other game theory tools implemented in networks using igraph or similar

[Jeff Newmiller]

There are many possible responses to the question "Is there a package to do X." Some that I can imagine are:

* Yes, see package Y...
* No, I am familiar with all 10000 packages and there isn't...
* Silence (because no one who is paying attention is familiar with the one that exists)
* Use a search engine...
* You are a jerk because you did not use a search engine
* Packages exist because people like you did not find what they were looking for

My point was that response 5 would have been uncivil, but 6 was a valid reminder and Mehmet was just being brief, not rude.

The first does happen, but it is more common that if the question sounds interesting that this question triggers list members to search for themselves. If the OP tells us that they did this already and package Y (that appears as soon as we do this) is unsuitable for some specific reason, then we all nod and agree that the search engine wasn't up to the task and watch with the OP in case someone does respond with an answer. But when the OP does not do that we get frustrated that yet again we are being treated like a search engine by someone who does not do their homework, since we don't know why they regarded the first search result as unsuitable. 

Keep in mind that broadcasting to many uninterested parties when the pool of targeted individuals (in this case,  people who have the answer readily available) is very very small is an activity most people call "spam". Showing your work so that someone else can either see something you missed or share in the joy when a rare answer comes through is what elevates such a posting from spam to shared research. 
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On June 28, 2017 5:44:31 AM EDT, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>I responded to the unhelpful suggestion "Why don't you implement and
>uplad the package to CRAN?" No  mention of a search engine. Is this
>what you are commenting on Jeff?
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>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 5:41 AM, Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
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>> In what way does reminding people that packages exist because others
>just like them contributed something count as being uncivil? Terse,
>perhaps, since it bypassed the obvious suggestion to use a search
>engine, but not rude.
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>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
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>> On June 28, 2017 5:08:16 AM EDT, Boris Steipe
><boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>> I don't think OP asked an unreasonable question at all.
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>>> Civility!
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>>>> On Jun 27, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Suzen, Mehmet <mehmet.suzen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Why don't you implement and uplad the package to CRAN?
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>>>> On 27 Jun 2017 17:45, "Chris Buddenhagen" <cbuddenhagen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Does anyone know of some code, and examples that implement game
>>> theory/Nash
>>>> equilibrium hypothesis testing using existing packages like
>>> igraph/statnet
>>>> or similar?
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps along the lines of this article:
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>>>> Zhang, Y., Aziz-Alaoui, M. A., Bertelle, C., & Guan, J. (2014).
>Local
>>> Nash
>>>> Equilibrium in Social Networks, *4*, 6224.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Chris Buddenhagen
>>>> cbuddenhagen at gmail.com
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