Prototype Packages for Managing and Animating Longitudinal Network Data: dynamicnetwork and rSoNIA
Prototype Packages for Managing and Animating Longitudinal Network Data: dynamicnetwork and rSoNIA
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用于管理和动画纵向网络数据的原型包：dynamicnetwork 和 rSoNIA
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2008
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J. Moody
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Skye Bender;M. Morris;J. Moody
使用纵向网络调查数据和STATNET ERGMS的动态网络输出表明，需要一致的框架和数据结构来表达、存储和处理有关随时间变化的网络的信息。出于我们对研究人员之间交换数据以及各种分析和可视化过程的要求，我们创建了一个R包动态网络，该网络建立在网络、STATNET和SNA包以前工作的基础上，并提供有限的功能实施。本文讨论了设计问题和注意事项，描述了动态数据的类和形式，并通过几个示例演示了该包的实用性。还演示了rSoNIA包的功能，该包使用DynamicNetwork与Social Network Image Animator(SONIA)软件交换数据，以创建从R内部改变网络的动画电影。
Work with longitudinal network survey data and the dynamic network outputs of the statnet ERGMs has demonstrated the need for consistent frameworks and data structures for expressing, storing, and manipulating information about networks that change in time. Motivated by our requirements for exchanging data among researchers and various analysis and visualization processes, we have created an R package dynamicnetwork that builds upon previous work in the network, statnet and sna packages and provides a limited functional implementation. This paper discusses design issues and considerations, describes classes and forms of dynamic data, and works through several examples to demonstrate the utility of the package. The functionality of the rSoNIA package that uses dynamicnetwork to exchange data with the Social Network Image Animator (SoNIA) software to create animated movies of changing networks from within R is also demonstrated.