Visualizing your Network

This page illustrates how to use visualize a network model using the tools in enaR and the network package.

The first step is to prepare the workspace.

rm(list = ls())
library(enaR)
library(network)

Then we can load the library of models and select one to use for this illustration.

# load data
data(enaModels)        # load library of Ecosystem Networks
names(enaModels)       # view model names
m <- enaModels[[9]]    # select the oyster model

We can then create a simple plot of the model with the default graphics parameters as

# Set the random seed to control plot output
set.seed(2)  # this is only used to ensure our plots look the same. 

# Plot network data object (uses plot.network)
plot(m)

This generates the following figure.