Dear Thomas
thank you for asking about this.
The main information in a graphNEL is, of course, the vector of nodes
(character) and a list of edges. That information can for sure go into an
igraph.
Then there is the slot `renderInfo`, which afaIu is (or can be) used to control
how the graph
>From my perspective Rgraphviz now has a quite good (cross-platform) access
to the Graphviz layout routines. But how to actually use these routines
from R is certainly something I think could be vastly improved upon. Right
now, Rgraphviz basically has two different interfaces to graph layout and
I’m in the process of developing ggraph (https://github.com/thomasp85/ggraph) -
An extensive plotting framework for graph/tree/network data based on ggplot2.
Currently the class support is focused on igraph and dendrogram, but the idea
is to extend it with support for additional graph