Re: [igraph] plot: edges cross vertexes

[Sam Steingold]

> * Gábor Csárdi <address@hidden> [2012-10-17 00:34:50 -0400]:
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Sam Steingold <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
>> Visual inspection.  Especially impressive is the ability to move
>> vertexes around to get a better picture...
>
> You can edit the igraph layouts by hand if you like. You can even do
> this interactively with tkplot() and then get the coordinates with
> tkplot.getcoords(). Probably does not look as nice as the JS stuff,
> but Tcl/Tk has been pretty much the only cross-platform GUI solution
> in R. If you only need to adjust the coordinates and then do the
> plotting via plot(), then it might work.

A picture is worth a 1000000 words.
Look at the demos http://www.yasiv.com/graphs#Bai/rw496
http://www.yasiv.com/amazon#/Search?q=graph%20drawing&category=Books&lang=US
Moving vertexes does not _set_ their location.
it just restarts the process of rendering from a different starting point.


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