Is there a function in R to pack several individual graphs into a "Network.List"?

Question

Please excuse me in advance if I do not express myself completely correctly. I am still relatively new in this field.

I work with different packages (e.g. igraph, network, networkDynamic, ggraph etc.) and have also tried different solutions.

I have several adjacency matrices (each of these matrices contains a change of the edges or their weights over time), with which I create individual networks with the command network(). In order to create a dynamic network from them, I would like to represent these networks as a network.list, so that I can insert them into the command networkDynamic().

I came up with this idea via the "Newcomb's Fraternity Networks" network-dataset, which represents a network.list. I have tried it with this network-dataset and it works.

networkDynamic(network.list = newcomb, create.TEAs = TRUE)

The subsequent display via render.d3movie() also works.

Is there a possibility to create a network.list from several adjacency matrices or their graphs?

I am also open for alternative suggestions.

Answer 1

the network.list is just a simple list. create an empty list and store the time-slices of your network in it, like:

network_list <- list()
network_list[[1]] <- network_1
network_list[[2]] <- network_2
network_list[[3]] <- network_3
network_list[[4]] <- network_4
network_list[[5]] <- network_5

you can then convert it to a networkDynamic object through

network_dynamic <- networkDynamic(network.list = network_list, create.TEAs = T)

Answer 2

In case others also come across this topic: I found the solution on this website Skye Bender-deMoll (04/05/2016): Temporal network tools in statnet: networkDynamic, ndtv and tsna