Even though R was not built for the purpose of network analysis, but the availability of extensive libraries have made R a very powerful go to platform for network analysis. The two libraries that we will be using are visNetwork and igraph. The first library will allow us to create interactive network graph, while the second will allow us to run some network analysis and answer some questions.

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Salman Virani, the author of this work, is a student of MSc Information Resource Management at Nanjing University. Follow on Twitter and GitHub