Hi Tamas,

Thank you for your help. I understand this function better, but here's the
other problem:

Of the vertices 1:26, I can also choose two nodes that are not consecutive,
as in, I can choose to merge (1,5) or (7,18) into a single vertex. Can this
be done?

Thank you for getting back to me! I really appreciate it!

Best,
Krishna.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Tamás Nepusz <[email protected]> wrote:

> > And after I pick two nodes, say 25, 26, which have multiple edges
> between them, I'm trying to merge them into a single vertex:
> The right contraction vector in this case is:
>
> c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,25)
>
> The reason is as follows. In the contraction vector, the i-th element must
> contain the _new_ ID of vertex i of the _old_ graph (making sure that the
> new IDs are in a continuous range from 1 to the desired number of vertices
> in the new graph). This is to allow making several contractions and
> permutations in a single step. Since the _new_ ID of every vertex except
> your vertex 26 must stay the same, the first 25 elements of the vector are
> 1:25. The 26th element must be 25 because you want the new ID of vertex 26
> to become 25 (since you merged that into vertex 25).
>
> In general, if you want to merge vertex v into vertex u (assuming that v >
> u), you will need a contraction vector as follows:
>
> vec <- c(1:(v-1), u, v:(vcount(g)-1))
>
> If v < u, just swap u and v and do the same thing.
>
> Best,
> Tamas
>
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