Radius of a graph

The eccentricity of a vertex is its distance from the farthest other node in the graph. The smallest eccentricity in a graph is called its radius.

Usage

radius(graph, ..., weights = NULL, mode = c("all", "out", "in", "total"))

Arguments

graph

The input graph, it can be directed or undirected.

...

These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.

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.

mode

Character constant, gives whether the shortest paths to or from the given vertices should be calculated for directed graphs. If out then the shortest paths from the vertex, if in then to it will be considered. If all, the default, then the graph is treated as undirected, i.e. edge directions are not taken into account. This argument is ignored for undirected graphs.

Value

A numeric scalar, the radius of the graph.

Details

The eccentricity of a vertex is calculated by measuring the shortest distance from (or to) the vertex, to (or from) all vertices in the graph, and taking the maximum.

This implementation ignores vertex pairs that are in different components. Isolated vertices have eccentricity zero.

References

Harary, F. Graph Theory. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, p. 35, 1994.

See also

eccentricity() for the underlying calculations, distances for general shortest path calculations.

Other paths: all_simple_paths(), diameter(), distance_table(), eccentricity(), graph_center()

Examples

g <- make_star(10, mode = "undirected")
eccentricity(g)
#>  [1] 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
radius(g)
#> [1] 1