Re: [igraph] changing an edge's target or source

[Benjamin Fields]

okay, well not the most exciting answer, but at least there isn't anything I 
was missing.  Thanks for the help.

/Ben

On 11 Feb 2010, at 16:52, Tamas Nepusz wrote:

>> Apologies if I'm missing something obvious or direct, but is there a
>> simple way to change an edge's source or target?
> No, unfortunately there isn't as there is no support for that in the
> underlying C library. Your best bet is to add a helper function that
> saves the attributes of the old edge (if any), removes the edge, adds
> the new edge and adds the attributes once again. I know, this is not the
> most efficient way to do it :( However, I'm not sure that it could be
> done more efficiently with igraph's current graph data type, which is
> practically an indexed edge list, so if you modify the target or the
> source of an edge, the index has to be updated as well.
> 
> -- 
> Tamas
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Ben Fields
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