Hi all,
I was calculating local average transitivity for my graph and I found somthing 
a bit odd, calculating the average transitivity for the whole graph and local 
average transitivity for a set of vertices gave me the same value,  

> g2 <- erdos.renyi.game(1000, 10/1000)
> transitivity(g2,type="average")
[1] 0.009935484
 transitivity(g2,type="localaverageundirected",vids=head(V(g2)))
[1] 0.009935484
Now shouldn't the second transitivity value be   
> mean(transitivity(g2,type="local",vids=head(V(g2))))
[1] 0.008994709
What I have also seen is that local average transitivity gave the same value 
for varying number of nodes    
> transitivity(g2,type="localaverageundirected",vids=head(V(g2),n=100))
[1] 0.009935484
> transitivity(g2,type="localaverageundirected",vids=head(V(g2),n=50))
[1] 0.009935484

After checking the R code for function transitivity I saw that  transitivity 
types   "average", "localaverage" and   "localaverageundirected" is calling the 
same external method    

transitivity
function (graph, type = c("undirected", "global", "globalundirected", 
    "localundirected", "local", "average", "localaverage", 
"localaverageundirected", 
    "barrat", "weighted"), vids = NULL, weights = NULL, isolates = c("NaN", 
    "zero")) 
{

    type <- igraph.match.arg(type)
    type <- switch(type, undirected = 0, global = 0, globalundirected = 0, 
        localundirected = 1, local = 1, average = 2, localaverage = 2, 
        localaverageundirected = 2, barrat = 3, weighted = 3)
 if (type == 2) {
        .Call("R_igraph_transitivity_avglocal_undirected", graph, 
            isolates, PACKAGE = "igraph")
    }
}

Is this a possible bug in R igraph ?
I found  this same  thing with igraph package versions igraph_0.6.4 and 
igraph_0.6.3

Thank you,

Regards,
Sudeep.
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