# R igraph manual pages

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## Disjoint union of graphs

### Description

The union of two or more graphs are created. The graphs are assumed to have disjoint vertex sets.

### Usage

disjoint_union(...)

x %du% y


### Arguments

 ... Graph objects or lists of graph objects. x, y Graph objects.

### Details

disjoint_union creates a union of two or more disjoint graphs. Thus first the vertices in the second, third, etc. graphs are relabeled to have completely disjoint graphs. Then a simple union is created. This function can also be used via the %du% operator.

graph.disjont.union handles graph, vertex and edge attributes. In particular, it merges vertex and edge attributes using the basic c() function. For graphs that lack some vertex/edge attribute, the corresponding values in the new graph are set to NA. Graph attributes are simply copied to the result. If this would result a name clash, then they are renamed by adding suffixes: _1, _2, etc.

Note that if both graphs have vertex names (ie. a name vertex attribute), then the concatenated vertex names might be non-unique in the result. A warning is given if this happens.

An error is generated if some input graphs are directed and others are undirected.

### Value

A new graph object.

### Author(s)

Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com

### Examples


## A star and a ring
g1 <- make_star(10, mode="undirected")
V(g1)$name <- letters[1:10] g2 <- make_ring(10) V(g2)$name <- letters[11:20]
print_all(g1 %du% g2)


[Package igraph version 1.3.0 Index]