Hello Tamas,

and thanks for your answer.
I was thinking of something like that, since the networks are lattices and
this case is mentionned in the documentation.
I also had noticed the "nobigint" parameter for the "betweenness"
functions, however it does not exist for the "edge.betweenness" functions.
Best,
Vincent

> Hello,
>
> The negative values are most likely due to integer overflows (i.e. the> 
> betweenness score would be too large and the underlying variable in> which 
> igraph computes the betweenness score overflows). You can get> around this by 
> passing nobigint=FALSE to the edge betweenness call -> it will make igraph 
> use "big integers", which can hold arbitrarily> large numbers at the expense 
> of being somewhat slower.
>
> As for the NaNs, it could be a bug, but let's see first whether the
> issue persists with nobigint=FALSE. If so, let us know and try to post
> a small example on which we could reproduce the issue with NaNs.
>
> T.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Vincent Labatut
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>* Hello,*
>>
>>* I am processing the edge-betweenness of various networks using R igraph*
>>* version 7.1. Those are spatial networks (each node has a (x,y) position) 
>>and*
>>* I am using the "weight" option of the "edge.betweenness" function to take*
>>* the spatial distances into account. This spatial distance is stored in an*
>>* edge attribute called "dist".*
>>
>>* Here is the command I use:*
>>* edge.betweenness(graph=g, weights=E(g)$dist)*
>>
>>* However, for some of my networks, I get negative values, or even NaN. Here*
>>* are two examples, under the graphml format:*
>>* http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1540708 
>><http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1540708>*
>>* - scale=32.graphml*
>>* - scale=41.graphml*
>>
>>* For the first one, the first values returned by "edge.betweenness" are:*
>>*    [1] 1904887544.08 1904887544.08 1896303182.39 1951787568.72 
>>1203043060.76*
>>*    [6] 1270869072.68  622780616.09  667964773.27  279064394.68  
>>309184936.21*
>>*   [11]  135403467.81  155266075.94   51600202.02   60120695.31   
>>21113003.39*
>>*   [16]   24783603.89    6275147.30    6937885.52    1347425.01    
>>1002544.99*
>>*   [21]     150574.42    -327097.77    -711849.38   -1430744.36    
>>-246214.20*
>>*   [26]    -602827.15    -230344.97    -484630.12    -297768.08    
>>-492364.06*
>>
>>* For the second one, all the returned values are NaN.*
>>
>>* Note that all these weights are positive by definition. They even are*
>>* non-zero since no two nodes hold the same position, by construction. I also*
>>* checked this programmatically. Moreover, there are no multiple links, also*
>>* by construction (and I checked with "has.multiple").*
>>
>>* I was wondering if the negative or NaN values I get are due to me misusing*
>>* the function, or if this is a bug in igraph.*
>>
>>* Thanks,*
>>* Vincent Labatut*
>>
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>>


On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Vincent Labatut <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am processing the edge-betweenness of various networks using R igraph
> version 7.1. Those are spatial networks (each node has a (x,y) position)
> and I am using the "weight" option of the "edge.betweenness" function to
> take the spatial distances into account. This spatial distance is stored in
> an edge attribute called "dist".
>
> Here is the command I use:
> edge.betweenness(graph=g, weights=E(g)$dist)
>
> However, for some of my networks, I get negative values, or even NaN. Here
> are two examples, under the graphml format:
> http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1540708
> - scale=32.graphml
> - scale=41.graphml
>
> For the first one, the first values returned by "edge.betweenness" are:
>    [1] 1904887544.08 1904887544.08 1896303182.39 1951787568.72
> 1203043060.76
>    [6] 1270869072.68  622780616.09  667964773.27  279064394.68
>  309184936.21
>   [11]  135403467.81  155266075.94   51600202.02   60120695.31
> 21113003.39
>   [16]   24783603.89    6275147.30    6937885.52    1347425.01
>  1002544.99
>   [21]     150574.42    -327097.77    -711849.38   -1430744.36
>  -246214.20
>   [26]    -602827.15    -230344.97    -484630.12    -297768.08
>  -492364.06
>
> For the second one, all the returned values are NaN.
>
> Note that all these weights are positive by definition. They even are
> non-zero since no two nodes hold the same position, by construction. I also
> checked this programmatically. Moreover, there are no multiple links, also
> by construction (and I checked with "has.multiple").
>
> I was wondering if the negative or NaN values I get are due to me misusing
> the function, or if this is a bug in igraph.
>
> Thanks,
> Vincent Labatut
>
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