[R] igraph function "graph.bfs" unavailable

[Gábor Csárdi]

Hi David,

please make sure that you have the 0.6 version of igraph installed.
You might need to upgrade your R installation to install the 0.6
version of igraph.

Best,
Gabor

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:36 AM, David Marx <dmarx at soundexchange.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed the igraph package and have been otherwise using it successfully, but when I try to use graph.bfs I get the error:
>
>     could not find function "graph.bfs"
>
> Moreover, I don't seem to have the documentation installed either. (per ?graph.bfs and ??graph.bfs).
>
> I'm using RStudio v0.95.262 on windows 7. Below is the info for my R build:
>
>     R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
>     Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>     ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>     Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> If for some reason this algorithm really is just unavailable, maybe someone can come up with another way to solve my problem. I need a function that builds subgraphs up to a limited distance from an input root node. I feel like this is a common enough task that there's probably an easier way to do it, but I'm still learning what tools are available to me in igraph and built my own solution. The code below was tested on a machine that didn't have issues with graph.bfs (I changed some variable names for the purpose of this post, so maybe I broke something):
>
>   isolated.subgraph <- function(main.graph, node.name, bfs.dist=2){
>       # Get vertex id for root node from input graph
>       node.vid <- V(main.graph)[nodeName==node.name][[1]]
>
>       # Traverse graph using breadth-first search
>       # to distance of 2 from root
>       node.bfs <- graph.bfs(main.graph, root=node.vid
>                                                   ,callback=function(graph, data, extra){data['dist'] == bfs.dist}
>                                                   )
>
>       # Isolate pertinent subgraph from nodes in node.bfs.
>       # Need to trim out NaN vertices from node.bfs
>       node.g <- induced.subgraph(all, node.bfs$order[which(!is.na(node.bfs$order))])
>       return(node.g)
>   }
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Marx
>
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