Thank you! I had read that part, I just implemented it wrong and was
getting an error, the example clarified it further and I successfully tried
contracting a few more nodes.

I really appreciate your help and patience! Thank you!

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Tamás Nepusz <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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?
>
> Quoting myself:
>
> > 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.
> In your case, u=1 and v=5 (since you are merging node 5 into node 1), so
> the contraction vector is:
>
> c(1:4, 1, 5:(vcount(g)-1))
>
> Best,
> Tamas
>
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