It would be useful to have a plotting method for a general network-type data. What is the best current approach for visualizing networks? There are a large number of packages out there for working with and plotting general networks, both in base and ggplot2 frameworks. I'm not sure which (if any) of these are the most used, or what the tradeoffs with them are.
One issue with plotting a network is it likely also locks us into a specific type of network data object.
We do have one advantage here that might help limit the needed choices: by the definition of MRF, the graph has to be undirected (although it can be weighted).
Brief searching on this makes me think that GGally's ggnet2 function could work well here, but it uses the network package for network data, which I have not worked with before.
It would be useful to have a plotting method for a general network-type data. What is the best current approach for visualizing networks? There are a large number of packages out there for working with and plotting general networks, both in base and ggplot2 frameworks. I'm not sure which (if any) of these are the most used, or what the tradeoffs with them are.
One issue with plotting a network is it likely also locks us into a specific type of network data object.
We do have one advantage here that might help limit the needed choices: by the definition of MRF, the graph has to be undirected (although it can be weighted).
Brief searching on this makes me think that GGally's
ggnet2function could work well here, but it uses thenetworkpackage for network data, which I have not worked with before.