With a chosen or random node serving as the starting point, perform a depth-first search of the whole graph and return the node ID values visited. The dfs algorithm differs from breadth-first search (bfs) in that dfs will follow tree branches as far as possible until terminating at leaf node (bfs traverses branches one level at a time).
Arguments
- graph
A graph object of class
dgr_graph.- node
An optional node ID value to specify a single starting point for the dfs. If not provided, a random node from the graph will be chosen.
- direction
Using
all(the default), the bfs will ignore edge direction while traversing through the graph. Withoutandin, traversals between adjacent nodes will respect the edge direction.
Value
A vector containing node ID values for nodes visited during the depth-first search. The order of the node IDs corresponds to the order visited.
Examples
# Create a graph containing
# two balanced trees
graph <-
create_graph() %>%
add_balanced_tree(
k = 2, h = 2) %>%
add_balanced_tree(
k = 3, h = 2)
# Perform a depth-first
# search of the graph,
# beginning at the root
# node `1` (the default
# `direction = "all"`
# doesn't take edge
# direction into account)
graph %>%
do_dfs(node = 1)
#> [1] 1 2 4 5 3 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 10 15 16 17 11 18 19 20
# If not specifying a
# starting node, the function
# will begin the search
# from a random node
graph %>%
do_dfs()
#> [1] 2 1 3 6 7 4 5 8 9 12 13 14 10 15 16 17 11 18 19 20
# It's also possible to
# perform dfs while taking
# into account edge direction;
# using `direction = "in"`
# causes the dfs routine to
# visit nodes along inward edges
graph %>%
do_dfs(
node = 1,
direction = "in")
#> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
# Using `direction = "out"`
# results in the dfs moving
# along solely outward edges
graph %>%
do_dfs(
node = 1,
direction = "out")
#> [1] 1 2 4 5 3 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 10 15 16 17 11 18 19 20