igraph
ggplot plotting engine
From @gaborcsardi on October 16, 2014 23:6
To look at: http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38459242505/beautiful-network-diagrams-with-ggplot2 http://chrischizinski.github.io/rstats/2014/04/04/igraph-ggplotll/ http://sumtxt.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/visualizing-networks-with-ggplot2-in-r/
Maybe in a separate package? It is high time to split things up.
Copied from original issue: igraph/igraph#735
Having just stumbled upon this suggestion, I'd like to reference some code I wrote to plot networks with ggplot2: https://briatte.github.io/ggnet/ (the functions are published in the GGally package)
Right now, these functions use the network and sna packages to handle the network objects. However, there are lots of namespace conflicts between these two packages and igraph (discussion here). If igraph is more resilient to these issues, I might consider rewriting the code to use igraph instead.
Wow, old thread!
Three approaches to network viz with ggplot2 are documented here:
- https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-023/index.html
- https://github.com/sctyner/ggnet-paper
The three approaches:
- https://github.com/sctyner/geomnet
- https://github.com/briatte/ggnet
- https://github.com/briatte/ggnetwork
… but in my view, ggraph is a far superior approach:
- https://github.com/thomasp85/ggraph
Given the state of ggraph, I think we can safely close this as there is no need to implement this in igraph itself. Feel free to reopen if needed.
