2024/09/27 by Julia Manso, Manso, Julia
Computer Science · Psychology · #Computation (stat.CO) #Data Analysis with R #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mental Health Research Topics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.18646
openalex publication_date 2024/09/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper introduces GephiForR, an R package designed to replicate Java-based Gephi's key plotting tools in R. The package is accessible to those with minimal R experience and, in particular, implements ForceAtlas2, the key layout feature developed for Gephi by Jacomy et al. (2014). The most significant advancement is the ability to pass previous positions into ForceAtlas2 as baselines, a particularly useful feature for plotting the evolution of network layouts for time series data. GephiForR is especially suited for networks of less than 1000 nodes, simply because R's dependence on single-thread computation means that larger networks take longer to compute, but the package can handle these larger networks as well. I demonstrate the package's capabilities through various examples and comparisons with existing tools and Gephi itself, assessing performance and speed.