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Hi,

A short list of R network analysis packages appears in the "Awesome R" list:

https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R#network-analysis

-- Suggestion #1

Perhaps it would make sense to build an "Awesome Network Analysis"
list that covers both R and Python, as well as other languages and
tools, such as Gephi, Linkurious, etc.

GitHub is perfect for building such lists collaboratively. Here's a
template that anyone with a GitHub account can contribute to:

https://github.com/briatte/awesome-network-analysis

For more information about "awesome lists" (which include, for
instance, a list about neural networks):

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

-- Suggestion #2

It might make sense to have a CRAN Task View just on Network Analysis,
and to link to it from the CRAN Task View on Social Sciences. See:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/

Cheers,

François


On 10 April 2016 at 19:37, Raffaele Vacca <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Ian,
> Very interesting project! I would definitely include igraph in the
> Visualization category too, because igraph has very powerful visualization
> facilities.
> Another comment is that, looking at your list, it's not clear to me where
> you are drawing the line, that is, what the inclusion criterion for a
> package is. The list includes packages that are not specifically for
> networks, although they are certainly used by network analysts (e.g.
> data.table, gganimate). However, if the criterion is "any package that is
> used by network analysts", then some packages are missing which I'm sure
> several people in this community use (e.g. ggplot, dplyr), and in fact your
> list might quickly become very long and less meaningful. You might want to
> think about restricting the list to (1) packages that have at least some
> functions specifically thought for network data, or (2) packages that have
> dependencies or inverse dependencies to packages in (1). Or maybe you could
> do two lists, one for strictly network packages, one for "other packages
> that network analysts find useful" (a consensus analysis on this would be
> very interesting).
> Raffaele
>
>
> On 4/10/16 9:32 AM, Ian McCulloh wrote:
>>
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>> Hello Friends!  I hope you enjoyed this year's Sunbelt.
>>
>> I was surprised at the number and diversity of R packages being used at
>> this years Sunbelt.  In fact, I have identified 32 different packages.
>> I'd
>> like to write a review paper of R packages for SNA and would like a little
>> help from the community up front.  Below is a link to a google sheets
>> spreadsheet that lists the packages that I have identified.  I have also
>> pasted them below in case there is an issue with the link.  If you are an
>> R
>> user, I'd appreciate it if you could look at the list and let me know if I
>> am missing any packages, preferably by adding to/editing the google sheet,
>> but you can email me as well.  I'm also interested in your opinions on how
>> I binned/organized the packages (CAPS LETTERS for topic bins).
>>
>> The Link
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CoFGtrW85D9FsVcAE5-bcXVl6QOTncwXjFBYp4u2WgE/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> If you have any thoughts on things that you might find useful in a review
>> paper on this topic, please let me know.  I look forward to seeing you all
>> next year.
>>
>> The list (in case you have a problem with the link)
>> BASIC NETWORK ANALYSIS
>> network
>> igraph
>> intergraph
>> Linkcomm
>> Matrix
>> slam
>> sna
>> SparseM
>> tsna
>> STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKS
>> ergm
>> latentnet
>> netdiffuseR
>> RSiena
>> statnet
>> VISUALIZATION PACKAGES
>> gganimate
>> ggnetwork
>> ndtv
>> networkD3
>> networkDynamic
>> rSoNIA
>> SPARQL
>> visNetwork
>> DATA COLLECTION
>> Rfacebook
>> Rlinkedin
>> SocialMediaLab
>> twitteR
>> MISCELLANEOUS
>> data.table
>> devtools
>> GGally
>> networksis
>> queueing-package
>> sparkR
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Ian
>>
>> Ian McCulloh, PhD
>> Johns Hopkins University
>>
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