Thank you so much for your answer, how would you scale the graph size ?my
graph is not a large graph but it is pretty big right? (almost 20000 nodes
and 200000 edges)


On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Tamas Nepusz <[email protected]> wrote:

> as I have two types of graph one is directed an weighted and the other one
> is undirected and unweighted, the one which I could use for both are four
> (1,2,4,5) which I get the error on the forth one as my graph is an
> unconnected graph, so there is three.
>
> You could still use the fourth one by decomposing your graph into
> connected components first (see ?decompose.graph), calculating the
> communities for each of the components, and then merging the community
> membership vectors.
>
>
>
>    - is there any other algorithm which is implemented in igraph and is
>    not in the list? and which will give me overlapping communities as well.
>
> No, but clique percolation is not particularly hard to implement in igraph
> - the naive solution would work for graphs of moderate size:
>
> http://igraph.wikidot.com/community-detection-in-r#toc0
>
>
>
>    -
>    which of these metric could be used for weighted and directed graph
>    and is there any implementation in igraph?
>
> modularity works for weighted graphs but ignores edge directions (since
> there is no agreement on the scientific community yet about how to extend
> modularity for directed networks; several competing proposals have been
> described in the literature). compare.communities() does not care about the
> graph since it compares the communities with a ground truth, so it does not
> matter whether the graph was directed or not.
>
>
>
>    -
>    also which metric could be used for which algorithm? , as I go through
>    one of the article "edge-betweeness"the metric used in there was the ground
>    truth and they compare to the known community graph.
>
> You could use any of the metrics with any of the algorithms. Keep in mind
> that some of the algorithms explicitly try to optimise the modularity
> behind the scenes (one way or another).
>
>
> T.
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