Jarrett, the 'igraph' package has a layout called layout.reingold.tilford that is designed for trees, there is a slight chance that it is good enough for you.
Best, Gabor On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:11 PM, jebyrnes <byr...@msi.ucsb.edu> wrote: > > I've been using sna to work with some networks, and am trying to visualize > them easily. My networks are hierarchical (food webs). All of the layout > engines I've tried with gplot don't seem to plot hierarchical networks, as > one would using dot from graphviz. While I could do all of this by > outputting to dotfiles and running it through graphviz, the graphics I get > from R are much cleaner, and more easily integrated into my analyses. > > Is there any good way to diagram a hierarchical network in R, either with > the sna library or otherwise? It strikes me that at least the Netindices > package can calculate trophic levels. Could this be used for node > placement? > > > -Jarrett > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Hierarchical-Diagram-of-Networks-in-sna-or-otherwise--tp23301819p23301819.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Gabor Csardi <gabor.csa...@unil.ch> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.