graph2SparseM: Coercion methods between graphs and sparse matrices
In graph: graph: A package to handle graph data structures

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These functions provide coercions between objects that inherit from the graph class to sparse matrices from the SparseM package.

1 2	graph2SparseM(g, useweights=FALSE) sparseM2Graph(sM, nodeNames, edgemode=c("directed", "undirected"))

`g`	An instance of the `graph` class.
`useweights`	A logical value indicating whether to use the edge weights in the graph as values in the sparse matrix.
`sM`	A sparse matrix.
`nodeNames`	A `character` vector of the node names.
`edgemode`	Specifies whether the graph to be created should have directed (default) or undirected edges. If undirected, the input matrix `sM` must be symmetric.

A very simple coercion from one representation to another.

Currently it is presumed that the matrix is square. For other graph formats, such as bipartite graphs, some improvements will be needed; patches are welcome.

graph2SparseM takes as input an instance of a subclass of the graph class and returns a sparse matrix.

sparseM2Graph takes a sparse matrix as input and returns an instance of the graphNEL class. By default, the graphNEL returned will have directed edges.

R. Gentleman

graph-class, graphNEL-class, and for other conversions, aM2bpG and ftM2adjM

  set.seed(123)
  g1 <- randomGraph(letters[1:10], 1:4, p=.3)
  s1 <- graph2SparseM(g1, useweights=TRUE)
  g2 <- sparseM2Graph(s1, letters[1:10], edgemode="undirected")
  ## consistency check
  stopifnot(all.equal(g1, g2))