Connections within the ggraph terminology are links between nodes that are
not part of the network structure itself. In that sense connections do not
affect the layout calculation in any way and will not be drawn by the
standard geom_edge_* functions. A connection does not need to only be
defined by a start and end node, but can include intermediary nodes.
get_con helps in creating connection data by letting you specify start
and end nodes and automatically finds the shortest path within the graph
structure that connects the given points. If this is not what is needed it is
also possible to supply a list of vectors giving node indices that define a
connection.
get_con(
from = integer(),
to = integer(),
paths = NULL,
...,
weight = NULL,
mode = "all"
)A function that takes a layout_ggraph object and returns the given connections
The index of the start and end nodes for the connections
A list of integer vectors giving the index of nodes defining connections
Additional information to be added to the final data output
An expression to be evaluated on the edge data to provide weights for the shortest path calculations
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 corresponding
undirected graph will be used, ie. not directed paths are searched. This
argument is ignored for undirected graphs.
Other extractors:
get_edges(),
get_nodes()