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How should you start when you want to do a network analysis in R? The answer to this question rests of course on the analytic questions you hope to answer, the state of the network data that you have available, and the intended audience(s) for the results of this work. The good news about performing network analysis in R is that, as will be seen in subsequent chapters, R provides a multitude of available network analysis options. However, it can be daunting to know exactly where to start.
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. ( J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit)
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Luke, D.A. (2015). The Network Analysis ‘Five-Number Summary’. In: A User’s Guide to Network Analysis in R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23883-8_2
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