Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 2010 Political Networks Conference. The first day of the conference included workshop sessions led by Matthew Jackson and Carter Butts, two eminent networks researchers. Both are now online.
The lecture by Carter Butts will be of particular interest to individuals looking to use R for social network analysis. Butts is the author of a number of network analysis packages for R (many of which come bundled in the amazing statnet package).
Network Analysis with statnet for Individual, Organizational, and International Relations Applications by Carter Butts, University of California-Irvine
Advanced Network Analysis by Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University
If you find these materials useful, you might also wish to check out Steve Goodreau and David Hunter’s tutorial Advanced Social Network Analysis Using R and statnet available at the Complexity and Social Networks blog.
Carter Butts and others provide an excellent series of articles in the Journal of Statistical Software as well. There is an intro article that is particularly helpful for the newcomer to R and SNA.
Link to full issue: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24
Link to tutorial: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i09
Readers may also be interested in these labs for SNA using R:
http://sna.stanford.edu/rlabs.php