Network embedding

Source: R/xnet.R

Compute an embedding of a sociomatrix into a two-dimensional space.

xnet(Y, fm = suppressWarnings(require("network")), seed = 1)

Arguments

Y

(square matrix) The sociomatrix.
fm

(logical scalar) If TRUE, the Fruchterman-Reingold layout will be used (requires the network package).
seed

(integer) The random seed (the FR layout is random).

Value

(matrix) A matrix of two-dimensional coordinates.

Details

Coordinates are obtained using the Fruchterman-Reingold layout if the package network is installed, and otherwise uses the first two eigenvectors the sociomatrix.

Author

Peter Hoff

Examples

data(addhealthc3) 
Y<-addhealthc3$Y
X<-xnet(Y) 
netplot(Y,X)