manip_nodes: Modifying node data

In manynet: Many Ways to Make, Modify, Mark, and Measure Myriad Networks

Modifying node data

Description

These functions allow users to add and delete nodes and their attributes:

• add_nodes() adds an additional number of nodes to network data.

• delete_nodes() deletes nodes from network data.

• add_node_attribute(), mutate(), or mutate_nodes() offer ways to add a vector of values to a network as a nodal attribute.

• rename_nodes() and rename() rename nodal attributes.

• bind_node_attributes() appends all nodal attributes from one network to another, and join_nodes() merges all nodal attributes from one network to another.

• filter_nodes() subsets nodes based on some nodal attribute-related logical statement.

Note that while ⁠add_*()⁠/⁠delete_*()⁠ functions operate similarly as comparable {igraph} functions, ⁠mutate*()⁠, ⁠bind*()⁠, etc work like {tidyverse} or {dplyr}-style functions.

Usage

add_nodes(.data, nodes, attribute = NULL)

delete_nodes(.data, nodes)

add_node_attribute(.data, attr_name, vector)

mutate(.data, ...)

mutate_nodes(.data, ...)

select(.data, ...)

select_nodes(.data, ...)

bind_node_attributes(.data, object2)

join_nodes(
  .data,
  object2,
  .by = NULL,
  join_type = c("full", "left", "right", "inner")
)

rename_nodes(.data, ...)

rename(.data, ...)

filter_nodes(.data, ..., .by = NULL)

Arguments

.data	An object of a manynet-consistent class: matrix (adjacency or incidence) from {base} R edgelist, a data frame from {base} R or tibble from {tibble} igraph, from the {igraph} package network, from the {network} package tbl_graph, from the {tidygraph} package
nodes	The number of nodes to be added.
attribute	A named list to be added as tie or node attributes.
attr_name	Name of the new attribute in the resulting object.
vector	A vector of values for the new attribute.
...	Additional arguments.
object2	A second object to copy nodes or ties from.
.by	An attribute name to join objects by. By default, NULL.
join_type	A type of join to be used. Options are "full","left", "right", "inner".

Details

Not all functions have methods available for all object classes. Below are the currently implemented S3 methods:

	igraph	network	tbl_graph
add_nodes	1	1	1
delete_nodes	1	1	1

Value

A data object of the same class as the function was given.

See Also

Other modifications: manip_as, manip_correlation, manip_deformat, manip_from, manip_levels, manip_miss, manip_paths, manip_permutation, manip_preformat, manip_project, manip_reformat, manip_scope, manip_split, manip_ties

Examples

  other <- create_filled(4) %>% mutate(name = c("A", "B", "C", "D"))
  add_nodes(other, 4, list(name = c("Matthew", "Mark", "Luke", "Tim")))
  other <- create_filled(4) %>% mutate(name = c("A", "B", "C", "D"))
  another <- create_filled(3) %>% mutate(name = c("E", "F", "G"))
  join_nodes(another, other)

manynet documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 6:26 p.m.