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Counting vertices and edges

A lot of basic information about a network can be extracted from an igraph object. In this exercise you will learn how to count the vertices and edges from a network by applying several functions to the graph object g.

Each row of the friends dataframe represents an edge in the network.

This is a part of the course

“Network Analysis in R”

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Exercise instructions

  • Use V() and E() to view the vertices and edges respectively of the network.
  • Use gsize() to count the number of edges in a network.
  • Use gorder() to count the number of vertices in a network.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load igraph
library(igraph)

# Subset vertices and edges
V(___)
E(___)

# Count number of edges
gsize(___)

# Count number of vertices
____(g)

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