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change "vertex.names" to "ego.id"? #11

Closed martinamorris closed 6 years ago

martinamorris commented 6 years ago
  1. names are not necessarily unique, IDs are
  2. used in the context of the alter list, "vertex" could refer to either ego or alter

this may no longer be relevant with the switch to egoR. if so, just lmk and close this.

krivit commented 6 years ago

It's a matter of consistency between the network and the ego dataset.

martinamorris commented 6 years ago

i'm not sure i understand what you're saying.

there is no vertex attribute called "vertex.name" in the original faux.mesa.high network object.

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krivit commented 6 years ago

Faux Mesa High doesn't have a vertex.names attribute; but when networks do have that attribute, it's usually a unique node identifier. We could rename it to something else when converting, but that would make it inconsistent with the network object.

In any case, you're right: it's largely moot, since in egor, it's just another ego column.