rbind uses the types of the first argument (here nodes) to determine the types of the second one. This causes edge attributes of class character to never be returned as factors, even if the user asks so (which is the default: see #53).
The problem affects both fortify.network and fortify.igraph.
The arguments passed to rbind need to be reversed, which will affect the result of ggnetwork but should not affect plots produced with it.
The problems described in #53 and #54 have a little cousin:
https://github.com/briatte/ggnetwork/blob/2d366822248e17920a64019160b79c217c30db79/R/fortify-network.R#L205
rbinduses the types of the first argument (herenodes) to determine the types of the second one. This causes edge attributes of classcharacterto never be returned as factors, even if the user asks so (which is the default: see #53).The problem affects both
fortify.networkandfortify.igraph.The arguments passed to
rbindneed to be reversed, which will affect the result ofggnetworkbut should not affect plots produced with it.