Dear all, I am trying to simulate a series of networks that have characteristics similar to real life social networks. Specifically I am interested in networks that have (a) a reasonable degree of clustering (as measured by the transitivity function in igraph) and (b) a reasonable degree of degree polarization (as measured by the average degree of the top 10% nodes with highest degree divided by the overall average degree).
Right now I am using two functions from irgaph (sample_pa and sample_smallworld) but these are not ideal since they only allow me to vary one of the two characteristics. Either the network has good clustering but not enough polarization or the other way round. I looked around and I found some network algorithms that solve the problem (E.g., Jackson and Rogers, Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends), but I did not find their implemented in an R package. I also found the R package NetSim which seems to be in this spirit, but I cannot get it to work. Could anyone point me to an R library that I could check out? I do not care much about the specific algorithm used as long as it allows me to vary clustering and degree polarization in certain ranges. Thanks, Michael Michael Haenlein Professor of Marketing ESCP Europe, Paris [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.