Hello! I am a biology student and I try to build a social network for my model animals. technically speaking the network came out great, but when looking at it it looks horrible eastheticly and really "unreadable". I've tried every layout I could find online but none seems to show everything I want. normcoords doesn't seem to do anything although I hope to "strech" the plot. At the end I found out that making the edged directional help a little.
Any suggestions of how can I make a (very) big Social network organized?
Networks are hard to visualize, and at some point it's necessary to fall back on plots of sub-graphs and to show the detail separately for each subgraph until the visual complexity is under control.
Take a look at the ggnetwork package, for one approach.