;%</span>
      <span class="co">#standard edge preparation is fine as k is included in the dataset</span>
      <span class="fu"><a href="../reference/prepare_edges.html">prepare_edges</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="op">)</span> <span class="op">%&gt;%</span>
      <span class="co">#k has already been generated by the generate_peels_network function </span>
      <span class="fu"><a href="../reference/prepare_categorical_force.html">prepare_categorical_force</a></span><span class="op">(</s