I want to do a social network analysis graph with some dynamics. The dynamics that I would like is on certain dates I want nodes to change colours and labels but I would like the links to stay the same. There are a few packages in R that do social network analysis such as `igraph`, `igraph0`, `network` and `sna` but these packages are quite limited in terms of visualisations.

I have also tried Gephi and have had some success in terms of dynamics where I can get node/links to appear/disappear at certain time points. (Can give the code for this if people want). But in terms of the dynamics I would like, as mentioned in the above paragraph, I have read online that at the moment gephi cannot do such dynamics.

My question is therefore: will there be a gephi version that will do such dynamics or what is the best open source social networking analysis visualisation software that will do such dynamics?

Cheers in advance

P.S. I wasn't to sure what to tag the question under so I went with gephi and R. Please correct me if there is a better tag that I should have used.