feature request: allow network to be controlled via a proxy object about visnetwork HOT 9 CLOSED

Yes, it's a very good feature request, but with quite a lot of work ! I'll try to find time to tkink about how add this in a next version.

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thanks! I realized it would be a major request, therefore I built a smaller output binding, without all the nice things you have, which can just do this. Even though it is a lot of work, it would give your package a really nice feature boost I think.

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In progress, first version coming soon...

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nice! :-)

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by the way, a cool feature I implemented which is easy to do once you have the proxy object is to use the animation option, see here.

Especially the animated fit and the ability to focus on a given node are useful e.g. to create a guided tour through a network over time.

Also pretty useful is the ability to use different layout endering-engines (other than the force layout and hierarchical layout vis.js offers). For instance, DiagrammeR offers a few, see here.

You just have to scale the coordinates of other layout engines to the coordinates visNetwork uses, which is easy to achieve as in vis.js you can give individual nodes x and y coordinates. A simple scaling to the canvas vis.js uses is enough. igraph obviously is another candidate which offers layout rendering possibilities.

The drawback is that you have to maintain multiple node and edge lists, but practically you would just pass the vis.js nodes and edges, use a transformation function to get inputs for the other network rendering tools, get the new coordinates and apply them to the vis.js instance.

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Now available in dev version on github, visNetwork 0.2.0.

You can use in shiny with visNetworkProxy function and then call visNodes, visEdges, ... all options for update.

I also introduce visFocus & visFit functions (and add more in future I think....!)

Some examples in a shiny apps shiny::runApp(system.file("shiny", package = "visNetwork"))

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looks nice! thanks for the update, I hope many find it useful :-)

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Just for information about layout :

I've just initialize and push on gitub a new function visIgraphLayout to compute coordinates before rendering. So we can now render the network really quicky, and use all igraph layout such as layout_in_circle, ...

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I noticed! Nice work, thanks! :-)

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