Recently there have been some great posts that highlight how easy it is to hook into the Facebook Graph API using R. Crawling Facebook with R started the discussion and Apply R highlighted how easy it was to plot our network. In order to replicate the examples on Windows, most likely you will need to run a few extra lines of code before calling the API.

https://www.r-bloggers.com/connect-to-the-facebook-api-with-r-for-windows-users/