Read .son (SoNIA) dynamic network input files to create a dynamic network object

Description

A .son file is a tab seperated text file with two sections, the first describing node attribute events and the second arc attribute event. Each section has a set of defined column names.

Usage

read.son(file)

Arguments

Details

For more details about the format, see the SoNIA file specification for more information: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sonia/index.php?title=Son_format. Uses as.networkDynamic internally to build a dynamic network out of an array of vertex spells and an array of edge spells. Does not currenctly support the AlphaId node index for permitting arbitrary node ids.

Value

A network dynamic object with vertex and edge durations corresponding the the spells defined in the input file.

Note

The current version of this function does not support reading the (dynamic) node and arc attributes.

Author(s)

Skye Bender-deMoll

References

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sonia/index.php?title=Son_format.

See Also

See Also as.networkDynamic

Examples

# classroom<-read.son(system.file('extdata/cls33_10_16_96.son',package='networkDynamic'))