remove ego-alter edges from ego network

this function removes all edges between the ego and alters in an ego network, leaving only the alter-alter connections visible. this is useful for visualizing the structure among alters without the clutter of ego connections.

Usage

remove_ego_edges(netlet)

Arguments

netlet

an ego network created with ego_netify()

Value

a modified netify object with ego edges removed

Author

cassy dorff, shahryar minhas

Examples

# \donttest{
mat <- matrix(c(NA, 1, 1, 1, NA, 0, 1, 0, NA), 3, 3,
    dimnames = list(c("alice", "bob", "carol"),
                    c("alice", "bob", "carol")))
net <- new_netify(mat, symmetric = FALSE)
ego_net <- ego_netify(net, ego = "alice")
alter_only_net <- remove_ego_edges(ego_net)
plot(alter_only_net)

# }