[R] Igraph library: How to calculate APSP (shortest path matrix) matrix for a subset list of nodes.

Moshe Olshansky m_olshansky at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 25 08:06:08 CEST 2008


I was too optimistic - the complexity is O(E*log(V)) where V is the number of nodes, but since log(25000) < 20 this is still reasonable.


--- On Mon, 25/8/08, Moshe Olshansky <m_olshansky at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Moshe Olshansky <m_olshansky at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] Igraph library: How to calculate APSP (shortest path matrix) matrix for a subset list of nodes.
> To: r-help at r-project.org, "dinesh kumar" <barupal at gmail.com>
> Received: Monday, 25 August, 2008, 3:27 PM
> As far as I know/remember, if your graph is connected and
> contains E edges then you can find the shortest distance
> from any particular vertex to all other vertices in O(E)
> operations. You can repeat this procedure starting from
> every node (out of the 500). If you have 100,000 edges this
> will require about 100,000*500 = 50,000,000 operations
> (times a small factor) which is very reasonable.
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 25/8/08, dinesh kumar <barupal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: dinesh kumar <barupal at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [R] Igraph library: How to calculate APSP
> (shortest path matrix) matrix for a subset list of nodes.
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Received: Monday, 25 August, 2008, 8:00 AM
> > Dear R Users,
> > 
> > I have a network of 25000 total nodes and a list of
> 500
> > node which is a
> > subset of all nodes. Now I want to calculate the APSP
> (all
> > pair shortest
> > path) matrix only for these 500 nodes.
> > I would appreciate any help.
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Dinesh
> > 
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