get.backbone: get.backbone
In mrmrmrmrmrmr/network: Analysis of the International Trade Network

Description Usage Arguments Value References Examples

This function extracts the backbone of a network

1	get.backbone(G, alpha, directed = TRUE)

`G`	igraph network
`alpha`	Signifcance level
`directed`	Default is TRUE

Backbone of the network

Serrano, M. Á., Boguñá, M. and Vespignani, A. (2009) Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(16), pp. 6483–6488.

require(igraph)

##Create a random (directed) network
gs<-erdos.renyi.game(50,0.2,directed = TRUE)

##Add edge weights to the network
E(gs)$weight<-runif(ecount(gs), 0, 1)

##Extract backbone at 0.05 significance level
backbone<-get.backbone(gs,0.1)