# R igraph manual pages

Use this if you are using igraph from R

 as_incidence_matrix {igraph} R Documentation

## Incidence matrix of a bipartite graph

### Description

This function can return a sparse or dense incidence matrix of a bipartite network. The incidence matrix is an n times m matrix, n and m are the number of vertices of the two kinds.

### Usage

as_incidence_matrix(
graph,
types = NULL,
attr = NULL,
names = TRUE,
sparse = FALSE
)


### Arguments

 graph The input graph. The direction of the edges is ignored in directed graphs. types An optional vertex type vector to use instead of the type vertex attribute. You must supply this argument if the graph has no type vertex attribute. attr Either NULL or a character string giving an edge attribute name. If NULL, then a traditional incidence matrix is returned. If not NULL then the values of the given edge attribute are included in the incidence matrix. If the graph has multiple edges, the edge attribute of an arbitrarily chosen edge (for the multiple edges) is included. names Logical scalar, if TRUE and the vertices in the graph are named (i.e. the graph has a vertex attribute called name), then vertex names will be added to the result as row and column names. Otherwise the ids of the vertices are used as row and column names. sparse Logical scalar, if it is TRUE then a sparse matrix is created, you will need the Matrix package for this.

### Details

Bipartite graphs have a type vertex attribute in igraph, this is boolean and FALSE for the vertices of the first kind and TRUE for vertices of the second kind.

### Value

A sparse or dense matrix.

### Author(s)

Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com

graph_from_incidence_matrix for the opposite operation.