R for Social Network Analysis

This is the website for "R for Social Network Analysis", a practical guide to analyzing, visualizing, and modeling networks in R. The book walks through the standard descriptive toolkit, builds up ggraph-based visualizations, and covers the main families of inferential models (ERGMs, stochastic actor-oriented models, and relational event models), before closing with a tidyverse-style take on network analysis via tidygraph.

The book is aimed at researchers, students, and practitioners who already know a little R and want a guided tour of the network-analysis ecosystem without having to stitch together a dozen package vignettes themselves.

About the authors

Termeh Shafie and David Schoch are both social network researchers and contributors to the R network-analysis ecosystem. The book draws on material developed for courses, workshops, and our own work on the packages it covers.