Re: [igraph] about rewire fuction

[Qunawei Zhang]

That makes sense. Many thanks.

Best
Quanwei

On 9/6/13 2:24 PM, "Tamás Nepusz" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> In the manual it said "Simple rewiring algorithm which chooses two
>>arbitrary edges in each step (namely (a,b) and (c,d)) and substitutes
>>them with (a,d) and (c,b) if they don¹t yet exist."
>> How do you determine which node is "a" given an edge? "a" is always the
>>node with smaller ID than "b"?
>Take a look at the source code here:
>
>https://github.com/igraph/igraph/blob/master/src/structural_properties.c#L
>1509
>
>Basically, we generate two random numbers between 0 (inclusive) and m-1
>(inclusive), where m is the number of edges. Then we take the edges with
>the generated IDs and extract their endpoints into (a,b) and (c,d). In
>case of directed graphs, there is nothing else to do -- a and c will be
>the sources of the two edges while b and d will be the targets. In case
>of undirected graphs, the call to igraph_edge returns (a,b) and (c,d)
>such that a<b and c<d, so we swap c with d with probability 0.5. This way
>we perform one of two possible rewirings with equal chance:
>
>1. (a,b) and (c,d) becomes (a,d) and (c,b)
>2. (a,b) and (d,c) becomes (a,c) and (d,b)
>
>> Do you agree? And would you please tell me where can I find the source
>>code of rewire function? I want to look at the details.
>It starts here:
>
>https://github.com/igraph/igraph/blob/master/src/structural_properties.c#L
>1464
>
>Best,
>Tamas
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