Information about optimal path

[Former user]

I have calculated 200 subpotimal paths for a "source" and "sink" combination. Also i got the path length distribution and Node degeneracy table and i am assuming that the shortest path from the path length distribution is the OPTIMAL PATH (please correct me if i am wrong))for the "source-sink" pair. Now i want to know some more information about this particular optimal path(like the resids or nodes through which it travels between the source and sink , and also the other options to explore more)

thanking you

[Xinqiu Yao]

Hi,

All the information you asked is stored in the returned value of cnapath(). For example,

pa <- cnapath(net, from = 314, to=172, k=50)

# path length sorted from shortest to longest
pa$dist
 [1] 4.769075 4.779683 4.790239 4.793736 4.813681 4.834845 4.838342 4.855335
...

# Node IDs that the first (shortest) path traverses
pa$path[[1]]
 [1] 314 164 165 167 168 169 170 172

Hope this can help.