John MacKintosh shows us the visNetwork package:
I’ve long been hoping for a reason to have to devote time to learning how to produce network plots. In my world, where bar and line charts reign supreme (with heatmaps and waffle charts thrown in occasionally) it is nice to be able to develop a new visualisation.
I’ve been wanting to produce a network plot for some time. But, the data structure, with its nodes and edges, and seeming lack of any identifiable characteristics, has meant it has not been hugely far up my agenda, or at least, never far up enough to make me learn more about it.
Click through for an example of where a network diagram can work out. H/T R-Bloggers