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[Deprecated]

average.path.length() was renamed to mean_distance() to create a more consistent API.

Usage

average.path.length(
  graph,
  weights = NULL,
  directed = TRUE,
  unconnected = TRUE,
  details = FALSE
)

Arguments

graph

The graph to work on.

weights

Possibly a numeric vector giving edge weights. If this is NULL and the graph has a weight edge attribute, then the attribute is used. If this is NA then no weights are used (even if the graph has a weight attribute). In a weighted graph, the length of a path is the sum of the weights of its constituent edges.

directed

Whether to consider directed paths in directed graphs, this argument is ignored for undirected graphs.

unconnected

What to do if the graph is unconnected (not strongly connected if directed paths are considered). If TRUE, only the lengths of the existing paths are considered and averaged; if FALSE, the length of the missing paths are considered as having infinite length, making the mean distance infinite as well.

details

Whether to provide additional details in the result. Functions accepting this argument (like mean_distance()) return additional information like the number of disconnected vertex pairs in the result when this parameter is set to TRUE.