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Community structure via short random walks

Source: R/community.R
cluster_walktrap.Rd

This function tries to find densely connected subgraphs, also called communities in a graph via random walks. The idea is that short random walks tend to stay in the same community.

Usage

cluster_walktrap(
  graph,
  weights = NULL,
  steps = 4,
  merges = TRUE,
  modularity = TRUE,
  membership = TRUE
)

Arguments

graph

The input graph, edge directions are ignored in directed graphs.

weights

The weights of the edges. It must be a positive numeric vector, NULL or NA. If it is NULL and the input graph has a ‘weight’ edge attribute, then that attribute will be used. If NULL and no such attribute is present, then the edges will have equal weights. Set this to NA if the graph was a ‘weight’ edge attribute, but you don't want to use it for community detection. Larger edge weights increase the probability that an edge is selected by the random walker. In other words, larger edge weights correspond to stronger connections.

steps

The length of the random walks to perform.

merges

Logical scalar, whether to include the merge matrix in the result.

modularity

Logical scalar, whether to include the vector of the modularity scores in the result. If the membership argument is true, then it will always be calculated.

membership

Logical scalar, whether to calculate the membership vector for the split corresponding to the highest modularity value.

Value

cluster_walktrap() returns a communities()

object, please see the communities() manual page for details.

Details

This function is the implementation of the Walktrap community finding algorithm, see Pascal Pons, Matthieu Latapy: Computing communities in large networks using random walks, https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512106

References

Pascal Pons, Matthieu Latapy: Computing communities in large networks using random walks, https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512106

See also

See communities() on getting the actual membership vector, merge matrix, modularity score, etc.

modularity() and cluster_fast_greedy(), cluster_spinglass(), cluster_leading_eigen(), cluster_edge_betweenness(), cluster_louvain(), and cluster_leiden() for other community detection methods.

Community detection as_membership(), cluster_edge_betweenness(), cluster_fast_greedy(), cluster_fluid_communities(), cluster_infomap(), cluster_label_prop(), cluster_leading_eigen(), cluster_leiden(), cluster_louvain(), cluster_optimal(), cluster_spinglass(), compare(), groups(), make_clusters(), membership(), modularity.igraph(), plot_dendrogram(), split_join_distance(), voronoi_cells()

Author

Pascal Pons (http://psl.pons.free.fr/) and Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com for the R and igraph interface

Examples


g <- make_full_graph(5) %du% make_full_graph(5) %du% make_full_graph(5)
g <- add_edges(g, c(1, 6, 1, 11, 6, 11))
cluster_walktrap(g)
#> IGRAPH clustering walktrap, groups: 3, mod: 0.58
#> + groups:
#>   $`1`
#>   [1] 11 12 13 14 15
#>   
#>   $`2`
#>   [1]  6  7  8  9 10
#>   
#>   $`3`
#>   [1] 1 2 3 4 5
#>