%0 Journal Article
%T Social Network Analysis in R: A Software Review
%A Beau Dabbs
%A Samrachana Adhikari
%J Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
%@ 1935-1054
%D 2018
%R 10.3102/1076998617729685
%X In education research, social network analysis is being widely used to study different interactions and their overall implications. Recently, there has also been a surge in the development of software tools to implement social network analysis. In this article, we review two popular R packages, igraph and statnet suite, in the context of network summarization and modeling. We discuss different aspects of these packages and demonstrate some of their functionalities by analyzing a friendship network of lawyers. Finally, we end with recommendations for using these packages along with pointers to additional resources for network analysis in R
%K network analysis
%K R packages
%K igraph
%K statnet suite
%K Lazega lawyers¡¯ network
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/1076998617729685