Animating Network Viz

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Does anyone know of a good walkthrough to visualize a network (from igraph) as it evolves (i.e., new connections are made)? I've looked here on https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/network/ and searched online but haven't seen anything.

For example, if the network is:

library("tidyverse")
library("igraph")

net.bg <- sample_pa(20) 
V(net.bg)$size <- 8
V(net.bg)$label <- "" 
E(net.bg)$arrow.mode <- 0

net.bg.df <- igraph::as_data_frame(net.bg) 

net.bg.df <- net.bg.df %>%
  mutate(time_frame = 1:n())

l <- layout_randomly(net.bg)

plot(net.bg, layout=l)

Is there a way to transition the animation by the field time_frame similar to a normal plot animation like:

library(ggplot2)
library(gganimate)
library(gapminder)
theme_set(theme_bw())

p <- ggplot(
  gapminder, 
  aes(x = gdpPercap, y=lifeExp, size = pop, colour = country)
) +
  geom_point(show.legend = FALSE, alpha = 0.7) +
  scale_color_viridis_d() +
  scale_size(range = c(2, 12)) +
  scale_x_log10() +
  labs(x = "GDP per capita", y = "Life expectancy")

p + transition_time(year) +
  labs(title = "Year: {frame_time}")

Thank you.

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