ERGM R Lab

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  • Once you have connected R-Studio to github and downloaded the workshop:
    • Open up the lab
      • You can also open up the lab Rmd file, ERGM_lab.Rmd in files you downloaded from github
    • Read through the lab and run the R code.
    • Provided on github is the tutorial, Rscript and lab exercises and necessary data.
      • Compile the whole lab into a .pdf if you installed latex.
    • Do the exercises in the Lab Exercises (data provided through git). ## Notes
    • This lab requires you to install packages
    install.packages("sna")
install.packages("network")
install.packages("ergm")
install.packages("coda")
install.packages("knitr")

  • Loading packages in R

    library(ergm)
data(florentine) 
flomarriage 
    ##  Network attributes:
##   vertices = 16 
##   directed = FALSE 
##   hyper = FALSE 
##   loops = FALSE 
##   multiple = FALSE 
##   bipartite = FALSE 
##   total edges= 20 
##     missing edges= 0 
##     non-missing edges= 20 
## 
##  Vertex attribute names: 
##     priorates totalties vertex.names wealth 
## 
## No edge attributes
    par(mfrow=c(1,2)) 
plot(flomarriage, main="Florentine Marriage", cex.main=0.8) 
summary(flomarriage~edges) 
    ## edges 
##    20