# Temporal Force-Directed Graph modifications

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/temporal-force-directed-graph-modifications/5846>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 20, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/temporal-force-directed-graph-modifications/5846 "2021-11-20T18:14:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Basosa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/basosa/32/5795_2.png) [@Basosa](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/Basosa)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/temporal-force-directed-graph-modifications/5846/1 "2021-11-20T18:14:18Z")

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Dear all,

I worked a little with D3js and just saw [this](https://observablehq.com/@d3/temporal-force-directed-graph) example on Observable. I would like to do a standalone of this temporal network to be able to use it for my R package [NetExplorer](https://github.com/SebastianSosa/Network-Explorer) and would like to make several modifications. I thus downloaded the notebook source code.

First, I would like to be sure that if I incorporate all the notebook source code the plot will work locally.

Second, the first modifications I wanted to do is to remove those outputs to keep only the ‘scrubber’ and the graph:  
update = undefined

data = Object {nodes: Array(3846), links: Array(26040)}

times = Array(1217) [2009-06-04T09:02Z, 2009-06-04T09:03Z, 2009-06-04T09:04Z, 2009-06-04T09:05Z, 2009-06-04T09:06Z, 2009-06-04T09:07Z, 2009-06-04T09:08Z, 2009-06-04T09:09Z, 2009-06-04T09:10Z, 2009-06-04T09:11Z, 2009-06-04T09:12Z, 2009-06-04T09:13Z, 2009-06-04T09:14Z, 2009-06-04T09:17Z, 2009-06-04T09:18Z, 2009-06-04T09:19Z, 2009-06-04T09:20Z, 2009-06-04T09:21Z, 2009-06-04T09:22Z, 2009-06-04T09:23Z, …]

contains = ƒ(…)

height = 680

drag = ƒ(simulation)

d3 = Object {format: ƒ(t), formatPrefix: ƒ(t, n), timeFormat: ƒ(t), timeParse: ƒ(t), utcFormat: ƒ(t), utcParse: ƒ(t), Adder: class, Delaunay: class, FormatSpecifier: ƒ(t), InternMap

Could you please let me know how to do this?

Thank you in advance for your help.

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**Author:** ![hellonearthis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/hellonearthis/32/3935_2.png) [@hellonearthis](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/hellonearthis)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/temporal-force-directed-graph-modifications/5846/2 "2021-11-20T18:44:09Z")

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