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Re: [igraph] about vertex id (in R)
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Tamás Nepusz |
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Re: [igraph] about vertex id (in R) |
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Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:20:38 +0100 |
>
> gene pair. So I firstly mapped the genes into ids (from 1 to n, where n is
> the gene number) and then describe the network by ids. Finally I used
> "read.graph(file="biggestComponent_id.txt",format="edge list") to input the
> network. But I found the ids seems different from the input ids (likely added
> by "1").
Most of igraph is written in C, which uses zero-based indices by default (so
edge and vertex IDs start from zero). However, R is using 1-based indices
everywhere so the R interface of igraph also provides 1-based indexing almost
everywhere; the only exception is the edgelist file format. This is because
edge list files may be saved and loaded from the C core of igraph or from the
Python interface of igraph as well, so there would be quite a bit of confusion
if edge lists saved from R used 1-based indices while edge lists saved from C
or Python used 0-based indices. Therefore, whenever you load an edge list into
igraph’s R interface, igraph assumes that the vertex indices in the file are
0-based and adds 1 to them automatically to obtain the vertex IDs that R will
use. Similarly, whenever you save an edge list from igraph’s R interface into a
file, igraph will subtract 1 from the vertex IDs used in R to obtain a 0-based
indexing.
Best,
T.