Retrieving adjaceny values in a nng igraph object in R - r

Question

edited to improve the quality of the question as a result of the (wholly appropriate) spanking received by Spacedman!
I have a k-nearest neighbors object (an igraph) which I created as such, by using the file I have uploaded here:
I performed the following operations on the data, in order to create an adjacency matrix of distances between observations:
W <- read.csv("/path/sim_matrix.csv")
W <- W[, -c(1,3)]
W <- scale(W)
sim_matrix <- dist(W, method = "euclidean", upper=TRUE)
sim_matrix <- as.matrix(sim_matrix)
mygraph <- nng(sim_matrix, k=10)
This give me a nice list of vertices and their ten closest neighbors, a small sample follows:
1 -> 25 26 28 30 32 144 146 151 177 183 2 -> 4 8 32 33 145 146 154 156 186 199
3 -> 1 25 28 51 54 106 144 151 177 234 4 -> 7 8 89 95 97 158 160 170 186 204
5 -> 9 11 17 19 21 112 119 138 145 158 6 -> 10 12 14 18 20 22 147 148 157 194
7 -> 4 13 123 132 135 142 160 170 173 174 8 -> 4 7 89 90 95 97 158 160 186 204
So far so good.
What I'm struggling with, however, is how to to get access to the values for the weights between the vertices that I can do meaningful calculations on. Shouldn't be so hard, this is a common thing to want from graphs, no?
Looking at the documentation, I tried:
degree(mygraph)
which gives me the sum of the weights for each node. But I don't want the sum, I want the raw data, so I can do my own calculations.
I tried
get.data.frame(mygraph,"E")[1:10,]
but this has none of the distances between nodes:
from to
1 1 25
2 1 26
3 1 28
4 1 30
5 1 32
6 1 144
7 1 146
8 1 151
9 1 177
10 1 183
I have attempted to get values for the weights between vertices out of the graph object, that I can work with, but no luck.
If anyone has any ideas on how to go about approaching this, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

Answer 1

It's not clear from your question whether you are starting with a dataset, or with a distance matrix, e.g. nng(x=mydata,...) or nng(dx=mydistancematrix,...), so here are solutions with both.
library(cccd)
df <- mtcars[,c("mpg","hp")] # extract from mtcars dataset
# knn using dataset only
g <- nng(x=as.matrix(df),k=5) # for each car, 5 other most similar mpg and hp
V(g)$name <- rownames(df) # meaningful names for the vertices
dm <- as.matrix(dist(df)) # full distance matrix
E(g)$weight <- apply(get.edges(g,1:ecount(g)),1,function(x)dm[x[1],x[2]])
# knn using distance matrix (assumes you have dm already)
h <- nng(dx=dm,k=5)
V(h)$name <- rownames(df)
E(h)$weight <- apply(get.edges(h,1:ecount(h)),1,function(x)dm[x[1],x[2]])
# same result either way
identical(get.data.frame(g),get.data.frame(h))
# [1] TRUE
So these approaches identify the distances from each vertex to it's five nearest neighbors, and set the edge weight attribute to those values. Interestingly, plot(g) works fine, but plot(h) fails. I think this might be a bug in the plot method for cccd.
If all you want to know is the distances from each vertex to the nearest neighbors, the code below does not require package cccd.
knn <- t(apply(dm,1,function(x)sort(x)[2:6]))
rownames(knn) <- rownames(df)
Here, the matrix knn has a row for each vertex and columns specifying the distance from that vertex to it's 5 nearest neighbors. It does not tell you which neighbors those are, though.

Answer 2

Okay, I've found a nng function in cccd package. Is that it? If so.. then mygraph is just an igraph object and you can just do E(mygraph)$whatever to get the names of the edge attributes.
Following one of the cccd examples to create G1 here, you can get a data frame of all the edges and attributes thus:
get.data.frame(G1,"E")[1:10,]
You can get/set individual edge attributes with E(g)$whatever:
> E(G1)$weight=1:250
> E(G1)$whatever=runif(250)
> get.data.frame(G1,"E")[1:10,]
from to weight whatever
1 1 3 1 0.11861240
2 1 7 2 0.06935047
3 1 22 3 0.32040316
4 1 29 4 0.86991432
5 1 31 5 0.47728632
Is that what you are after? Any igraph package tutorial will tell you more!