# visNetwork

> Interactive network visualisations

- Category: [R data visualization packages](https://awesomedataviz.com/categories/r/)
- Website: https://datastorm-open.github.io/visNetwork/
- Repository: https://github.com/datastorm-open/visNetwork
- License: MIT
- Language: JavaScript
- Status: Inactive (no commits in over a year)
- GitHub stars: 563
- Commits in the last 12 months: 0
- Contributors: 6
- Last commit: Sep 8, 2025
- Latest release: 2.1.1 (Jan 31, 2022)
- Install (CRAN): `install.packages("visNetwork")`, 16.7K downloads per week
- Topics: Graph & network visualization

## Overview

visNetwork is an open-source R visualization package released under the MIT license. Its GitHub repository has 563 stars, 125 forks, and 6 contributors. It has not had a commit since Sep 8, 2025. The latest release, 2.1.1, was published on Jan 31, 2022. On CRAN it is downloaded about 16.7K times per week.

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