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Color Nodes by Community

Source: R/network-utils.R
color_communities.Rd

Generate colors for nodes based on community membership. Designed for direct use with splot() node_fill parameter.

Usage

color_communities(x, method = "louvain", palette = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

Network input: matrix, igraph, network, cograph_network, or tna object.

method

Community detection algorithm. See detect_communities for available methods. Default "louvain".

palette

Color palette to use. Can be:

  • NULL (default): Uses a colorblind-friendly palette

  • A character vector of colors

  • A function that takes n and returns n colors

  • A palette name: "rainbow", "colorblind", "pastel", "viridis"

Any other single string is used as one color for every community.

...

Additional arguments passed to detect_communities.

Value

A character vector of colors with one element per node, named by node, for use as the node_fill argument of splot().

See also

detect_communities, splot

Examples

color_communities(regulation_net, method = "walktrap")
#>    Explore       Plan    Monitor      Adapt    Reflect    Discuss Synthesize 
#>  "#000000"  "#E69F00"  "#E69F00"  "#000000"  "#000000"  "#000000"  "#000000" 
#>   Evaluate     Create      Share 
#>  "#E69F00"  "#E69F00"  "#E69F00"