Done: https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/865

Note that I've tried again on Linux (the first try was on Windows),
and for some reason it seems to work (with the same igraph version).

Cheers,

Vincent

> Ah, my bad, I did not notice that you meant the edge betweenness and
> not the node betweenness. It looks like the edge betweenness related
> code does not include a similar bigint workaround. This should be
> fixed in the next version then - can you add a bug report to
> https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues ?
>
> Thanks,
> T.
>
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Vincent Labatut <address@hidden> wrote:
>>* Hello Tamas,*
>>
>>* and thanks for your answer.*
>>* I was thinking of something like that, since the networks are lattices and*
>>* this case is mentionned in the documentation.*
>>* I also had noticed the "nobigint" parameter for the "betweenness" 
>>functions,*
>>* however it does not exist for the "edge.betweenness" functions.*
>>* Best,*
>>* Vincent*
>>
>>*> Hello,*
>>*>*
>>*> The negative values are most likely due to integer overflows (i.e. the*
>>*> betweenness score would be too large and the underlying variable in*
>>*> which igraph computes the betweenness score overflows). You can get*
>>*> around this by passing nobigint=FALSE to the edge betweenness call -*
>>*> it will make igraph use "big integers", which can hold arbitrarily*
>>*> large numbers at the expense of being somewhat slower.*
>>*>*
>>*> As for the NaNs, it could be a bug, but let's see first whether the*
>>*> issue persists with nobigint=FALSE. If so, let us know and try to post*
>>*> a small example on which we could reproduce the issue with NaNs.*
>>*>*
>>*> T.*
>>*>*
>>*>*
>>*>*
>>*> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Vincent Labatut*
>>*> <address@hidden> wrote:*
>>*>> Hello,*
>>*>>*
>>*>> I am processing the edge-betweenness of various networks using R igraph*
>>*>> version 7.1. Those are spatial networks (each node has a (x,y) position)*
>>*>> and*
>>*>> I am using the "weight" option of the "edge.betweenness" function to take*
>>*>> the spatial distances into account. This spatial distance is stored in an*
>>*>> edge attribute called "dist".*
>>*>>*
>>*>> Here is the command I use:*
>>*>> edge.betweenness(graph=g, weights=E(g)$dist)*
>>*>>*
>>*>> However, for some of my networks, I get negative values, or even NaN.*
>>*>> Here*
>>*>> are two examples, under the graphml format:*
>>*>> http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1540708 
>><http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1540708>*
>>*>> - scale=32.graphml*
>>*>> - scale=41.graphml*
>>*>>*
>>*>> For the first one, the first values returned by "edge.betweenness" are:*
>>*>>    [1] 1904887544.08 1904887544.08 1896303182.39 1951787568.72*
>>*>> 1203043060.76*
>>*>>    [6] 1270869072.68  622780616.09  667964773.27  279064394.68*
>>*>> 309184936.21*
>>*>>   [11]  135403467.81  155266075.94   51600202.02   60120695.31*
>>*>> 21113003.39*
>>*>>   [16]   24783603.89    6275147.30    6937885.52    1347425.01*
>>*>> 1002544.99*
>>*>>   [21]     150574.42    -327097.77    -711849.38   -1430744.36*
>>*>> -246214.20*
>>*>>   [26]    -602827.15    -230344.97    -484630.12    -297768.08*
>>*>> -492364.06*
>>*>>*
>>*>> For the second one, all the returned values are NaN.*
>>*>>*
>>*>> Note that all these weights are positive by definition. They even are*
>>*>> non-zero since no two nodes hold the same position, by construction. I*
>>*>> also*
>>*>> checked this programmatically. Moreover, there are no multiple links,*
>>*>> also*
>>*>> by construction (and I checked with "has.multiple").*
>>*>>*
>>*>> I was wondering if the negative or NaN values I get are due to me*
>>*>> misusing*
>>*>> the function, or if this is a bug in igraph.*
>>*>>*
>>*>> Thanks,*
>>*>> Vincent Labatut*
>>*>>*
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