getgcc {bc3net}

Extracting the giant connected component from an igraph object

Description

The function uses igraph::clusters and igraph::induced.subgraph to extract the giant component of an igraph object.

Usage

  getgcc(net)

Arguments

net

An igraph object.

Details

In a connected component of an undirected graph all pairs of vertices u and v are reachable by a path. The giant connected component describes the largest connected component of a graph object.

Value

getgcc returns an igraph object with the giant connected component of an igraph object.

References

G. Csardi and T. Nepusz, The igraph software package for complex network research, InterJournal, Complex Systems,1695, 2006, http://igraph.org

Examples

# The example network "exanet" contains 814 genes with 1103 edges
data(exanet)

# The giant connected component of the example 
# network contains 382 genes with 989 edges
getgcc(exanet)