Thanks a lot for the explanations. I am going to give it a try in the next
few days.


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Tamas Nepusz <nta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >  Let's say the vertexes are from 1 to N,
> igraph vertex and edge indices are zero-based (which is the standard
> convention in C anyway so I guess this did not strike you as a surprise
> ;)).
>
> > 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.
> This is the format that igraph requires. Use an igraph_vector_t to store
> the
> edge list and then call igraph_create to construct your graph:
>
> http://igraph.sourceforge.net/doc/html/ch09s01.html#igraph_create
>
> An alternative way you could use is an adjacency list where you will
> basically have 80 million vectors, and the ith vector stores the neighbors
> of vertex i. The constructor to use is igraph_adjlist:
>
> http://igraph.sourceforge.net/doc/html/ch09s01.html#igraph_adjlist
>
> igraph_adjlist requires you to use our igraph_adjlist_t data structure,
> though. You have to construct an empty adjacency list first with
> igraph_adjlist_init_empty -- this also created all the 80 million vectors
> for you. You can then get the i-th vector using igraph_adjlist_get and add
> new neighbors to it using igraph_vector_push_back. Once you set up the
> adjacency list, you can call igraph_adjlist to turn that into an igraph_t
> (which is an indexed edge list by the way, but this is an implementation
> detail that you shouldn't care about). Finally, you can throw the
> igraph_adjlist_t away by calling igraph_adjlist_destroy. Relevant links
> from
> the documentation:
>
> http://igraph.sourceforge.net/doc/html/igraph-Adjlists.html
> http://igraph.sourceforge.net/doc/html/igraph-Vectors.html
>
> --
> T.
>
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