The purpose of this brief section is to help the reader carry out the tasks done earlier in the chapter using the R statistical software. Luke (2015) is a comprehensive account of dealing with social networks in R. We will begin with a very simple and arbitrary social network and we will then consider the Bali terrorist network in detail.
Using a simple and arbitrary social network, we set the ball rolling related to R implementation. Simple and useful functions are taken up first. The next social network used is detailed in the following.
Bali Terrorist Network, Stuart Koschade's, PhD thesis available at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16591/ deals with the Jemaah Islamiyah 2002 Bali Terrorist Network. The ties here represent contacts among the Bali terrorist cell. The dataset consists of ordinal variable as an edge characteristic, IC, which measures the frequency and duration of the contact with one indicating a weak relationship, and progressively indicating better relationships...