Hello:

I am new to igraph. I want to use the C interface and I am having a hard
time trying to do something basic.

I read the docs and I am not too sure I understand how to feed igraph the
vertexes and the edges.

My graph is unidirectional, sparse and it has around 80 mil nodes and
around 1 billion edges (I think it could be seen as a tree). I need to do
some processing to generate all the edges. At the end of this process I
will have a few arrays that contain the vertexes and the edges. For each
node X I have an array attached to X that contains the nodes Y such that
there is an edge from X to Y. I am not too sure yet about the exact
structures though. I guess I could end up having just the edges, assuming
the nodes will be from 1 to 80,000,000.

 Let's say the vertexes are from 1 to N, and the edges are expressed as
arrays attached to each node.  Of course there are several ways to express
the edges, but I don't understand what is the format that igraph accepts.
For instance, one way would be to put all the edges in a huge array of
pairs (X, Y) where there is an edge from X to Y. The array would contain:
0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4 etc where (0, 1), (0, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4)  etc are
all edges.

 Can you please clarify it for me? Ideally my custom process could produce
the data in the format used by igraph  to save memory and time.

I ultimately want to find the shortest paths. I don't need to add any
weights or any other data.

 My computer has 16GB of RAM.

Thanks
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