Network Analysis-nwcommands

[Manavi Gupta]

Hi,

I am using the nwcommands package to run some social network analysis.

I am facing two issues-

1. When i use nwplot to graph a network, the symbol command does not seem to work. I am not experiencing any error but the graph does not have different symbols for the different categories:

My command is: nwplot, lab color (status_sn_) symbol(caste) title(Known, margin(b=5))

and the graph that shows up is the attached file, with all the other commands working fine. I have downloaded all nwcommand files and updated them but cannot figure out why the symbol command specifically does not work.



2. I am running the analysis for 40 villages and have written the nwset and nwplot code within a loop over the village codes. However, despite having no errors with the graph export command , my destination folder remains empty after the entire loop runs.

The code is as below:

levelsof village
foreach lev in `r(levels)'{
preserve
keep if village==`lev'
keep village hhid hhid_sn_ know_pers status_sn_
replace hhid_sn_=hhid if know_pers==0
nwset hhid hhid_sn_, edgelist
joinby _nodelab using "Status_SN.dta"
nwplot ,lab color(status_sn_) title(Known, margin(b=5))
graph export "C:\Users\manavigupta\Desktop\graphs_SN\`lev'1 .png ", replace
restore

Thanks in advance for the help!