Re: [igraph] Diameter vs. longest shortest paths

[Claudia Muller-Birn]

Hi Tamas,

> [...] 
> 
> 2. diameter() and shortest.paths() behave differently when the graph is
> not strongly connected (like in your case). For instance, in your second
> example, it is impossible to reach vertex 8 from vertex 3. In such
> cases, diameter() calculates the diameter of the largest connected
> component and returns that (check out the "unconnected" parameter in
> help(diameter)), while shortest.paths() uses a value of infinity (if I
> remember correctly).

Yes, the function shortest.paths() returns "inf".

> Regarding weights: if you have a "weight" attribute, then diameter() and
> shortest.paths() will use that. If you want to use some other edge
> attribute or an arbitrary vector as weights, you can pass that in the
> weights=... argument.

O.k., this is what I assumed. Interestingly other network tools seems to be not 
that sophisticated :) 

Thank you!

Best, Claudia

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