Re: [igraph] stochastic nature of network coordinate generation?

[Gábor Csárdi]

Hi James,

see ?set.seed.

Best,
G.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM, James T Metz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Igraph Users,
>
>         I am using the following function to generate 2D coordinates for a
> network
>
>         coords <- layout.fruchterman.reingold(network, weights =
> E(network)$weight)
>
>         However, I have noted that when I call this function several times,
> I get different
> coordinates for the same input.  Hence, there seems to be some kind of
> stochastic
> or random characteristic of this function.
>
>         Is there a random number seed or some parameter that can be set so
> that the same
> output coordinates are generated for the same input every time this function
> is called?
>
>         Thank you.
>
>         Regards,
>         Jim Metz
>
>
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