[R--gR] R data structure for network graphs?

[Jeremy Semeiks]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:00:26PM +0100, Giovanni Marchetti wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 15:24, Paul Shannon wrote:
> 
> > I wonder:  has this group defined an R data structure for
> > representing network graphs, with nodes and edges (and
> > perhaps with node and edge attributes as well)?  I wish
> > to include this view of our data along side our experimental
> > data.
> 
> Dear Paul
> 
> I think that the only structure available in R for graphs
> is class graph defined in package graph by 
> Robert Gentleman.  It is a Bioconductor package. 
> Look at http://www.bioconductor.org/

Bioconductor also provides the RBGL class, which is based on the C++
Boost graph libraries. RBGL provides some basic graph algorithms as
well. But I find it to be fairly slow for large graphs.

- Jeremy