These functions allow users to add and delete nodes and their attributes:

  • add_nodes() adds an additional number of nodes to network data.

  • delete_nodes() deletes nodes from network data.

  • add_node_attribute(), mutate(), or mutate_nodes() offer ways to add a vector of values to a network as a nodal attribute.

  • rename_nodes() and rename() rename nodal attributes.

  • bind_node_attributes() appends all nodal attributes from one network to another, and join_nodes() merges all nodal attributes from one network to another.

  • filter_nodes() subsets nodes based on some nodal attribute-related logical statement.

Note that while add_*()/delete_*() functions operate similarly as comparable {igraph} functions, mutate*(), bind*(), etc work like {tidyverse} or {dplyr}-style functions.

add_nodes(.data, nodes, attribute = NULL)

delete_nodes(.data, nodes)

add_node_attribute(.data, attr_name, vector)

mutate_nodes(.data, ...)

mutate(.data, ...)

bind_node_attributes(.data, object2)

join_nodes(
  .data,
  object2,
  .by = NULL,
  join_type = c("full", "left", "right", "inner")
)

rename_nodes(.data, ...)

rename(.data, ...)

filter_nodes(.data, ..., .by)

Arguments

.data

An object of a manynet-consistent class:

  • matrix (adjacency or incidence) from {base} R

  • edgelist, a data frame from {base} R or tibble from {tibble}

  • igraph, from the {igraph} package

  • network, from the {network} package

  • tbl_graph, from the {tidygraph} package

nodes

The number of nodes to be added.

attribute

A named list to be added as tie or node attributes.

attr_name

Name of the new attribute in the resulting object.

vector

A vector of values for the new attribute.

...

Additional arguments.

object2

A second object to copy nodes or ties from.

.by

An attribute name to join objects by. By default, NULL.

join_type

A type of join to be used. Options are "full","left", "right", "inner".

Value

A data object of the same class as the function was given.

Details

Not all functions have methods available for all object classes. Below are the currently implemented S3 methods:

igraphnetworktbl_graph
add_nodes111
delete_nodes111

Examples

  other <- create_filled(4) %>% mutate(name = c("A", "B", "C", "D"))
  add_nodes(other, 4, list(name = c("Matthew", "Mark", "Luke", "Tim")))
#> # Filled network
#> # A labelled, undirected network of 8 nodes and 6 ties
#> # A tibble: 8 × 1
#>   name   
#>   <chr>  
#> 1 A      
#> 2 B      
#> 3 C      
#> 4 D      
#> 5 Matthew
#> 6 Mark   
#> # ℹ 2 more rows
#> # A tibble: 6 × 2
#>    from    to
#>   <int> <int>
#> 1     1     2
#> 2     1     3
#> 3     1     4
#> 4     2     3
#> 5     2     4
#> 6     3     4
  other <- create_filled(4) %>% mutate(name = c("A", "B", "C", "D"))
  another <- create_filled(3) %>% mutate(name = c("E", "F", "G"))
  join_nodes(another, other)
#> Joining with `by = join_by(name)`
#> # Filled network
#> # A labelled, undirected network of 7 nodes and 3 ties
#> # A tibble: 7 × 1
#>   name 
#>   <chr>
#> 1 E    
#> 2 F    
#> 3 G    
#> 4 A    
#> 5 B    
#> 6 C    
#> # ℹ 1 more row
#> # A tibble: 3 × 2
#>    from    to
#>   <int> <int>
#> 1     1     2
#> 2     1     3
#> 3     2     3