buildPkgDependencyIgraph {BiocPkgTools} | R Documentation

## Work with package dependencies as a graph

### Description

Package dependencies represent a directed graph (though Bioconductor dependencies are not an acyclic graph). This function simply returns an igraph graph from the package dependency data frame from a call to `buildPkgDependencyDataFrame` or any tidy data frame with rows of (Package, dependency) pairs. Additional columns are added as igraph edge attributes (see `graph_from_data_frame`).

### Usage

    buildPkgDependencyIgraph(pkgDepDF)

### Arguments

`pkgDepDF` | a tidy data frame. See description for details.

### Value

an igraph directed graph. See the igraph package for details of what can be done.

### See Also

See `buildPkgDependencyDataFrame`, `graph_from_data_frame`, `inducedSubgraphByPkgs`, `subgraphByDegree`, `igraph-es-indexing`, `igraph-vs-indexing`

### Examples

    library(igraph)

    pkg_dep_df = buildPkgDependencyDataFrame()

    # at this point, filter or join to manipulate
    # dependency data frame as you see fit.

    g = buildPkgDependencyIgraph(pkg_dep_df)
    g

    # Look at nodes and edges
    head(V(g)) # vertices
    head(E(g)) # edges

    # subset graph by attributes

    head(sort(degree(g, mode='in'), decreasing=TRUE))
    head(sort(degree(g, mode='out'), decreasing=TRUE))

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