On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Bob Pap <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, I was not sure the second was faster as there are additional calls
> in my version. Incidentally, thanks for pointing that get.vertex.attribute(g,
> attr, id) suffices (instead of get.vertex.attribute(g,attr,V(
> g)[which(V(g)$name==id)])). However, how does index correctly understand
> that I am using attribute "name"?
>

igraph handles the 'name' attribute specially.


> How if I wanted to identify the vertex by an another attribute?
>

You cannot.

Gabor


> Kindly,
> Bob Pap
>
>
> On 11 April 2014 02:52, Gábor Csárdi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but the second can be written as get.vertex.attribute(g, attr, id),
>> which is a lot more readable and it i also slightly faster.
>>
>> Gabor
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Bob Pap <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Many thanks dear Gabor. I think the following two should do (equivalent?)
>>>
>>> 1. function(g,id="identifierXX",attr="betweeness") {
>>>  get.vertex.attribute(g,attr)[which(V(g)$name==id)]
>>> }
>>>
>>> 2. function(g,id="identifierXX",attr="betweeness") {
>>>  get.vertex.attribute(g,attr,V(g)[which(V(g)$name==id)])
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> Kindly,
>>> Bob Pap
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 April 2014 18:45, Gábor Csárdi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Bob Pap <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Unaware of any method for dealing with multigraphs (in my case a
>>>>> family of graphs "g" indexed by time), I handle these by creating a list,
>>>>> indexed by the time period, say "Mygraphs", where Mygraphs[["2014-01-01"]]
>>>>> returns graph g as it was in 2014-01-01.
>>>>>
>>>>> I face the need to extract a combination of attributes from the series
>>>>> (in the example below the vertex's "id" and "betweeness", ordered by the
>>>>> index of Mygraphs), I do so for example as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> sapply(
>>>>> Mygraphs,
>>>>> function(g,id="identifierXX",attr="betweeness") {
>>>>> get.vertex.attribute(induced.subgraph(g, which(V(g)$name==id)),attr)
>>>>> }
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot help to think that the use of induced.subgraph could be
>>>>> obviated by specifying the 2 dimensions (id and attr) at once in the
>>>>> extraction, but I how would I restrict get.vertex.attribute to only return
>>>>> the value for vertex "identifierXX" only?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> See the 'index' argument of 'get.vertex.attribute'.
>>>> http://igraph.org/r/doc/attributes.html
>>>>
>>>> Gabor
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>>>> Kindly,
>>>>> Bob Pap
>>>>>
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