net2VOSviewer {bibliometrix}

Open a bibliometrix network in VosViewer

Description

net2VOSviewer plots a network created with networkPlot using VOSviewer by Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman.

Usage

net2VOSviewer(net, vos.path = NULL)

Arguments

net

is an object created by networkPlot function.

vos.path

is a character indicating the full path where VOSviewer.jar is located.

Details

The function networkPlot can plot a bibliographic network previously created by biblioNetwork. The network map can be plotted using internal R routines or using VOSviewer by Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman.

Value

It write a .net file that can be open in VOSviewer

See Also

biblioNetwork to compute a bibliographic network.

networkPlot to create and plot a network object

Examples

# EXAMPLE 

# VOSviewer.jar have to be present in the working folder

# data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")

# NetMatrix <- biblioNetwork(scientometrics, analysis = "co-citation", 
# network = "references", sep = ";")

# net <- networkPlot(NetMatrix, n = 30, type = "kamada", Title = "Co-Citation",labelsize=0.5) 

# net2VOSviewer(net)