labeledge

Label graph edges

Syntax

labeledge(H,s,t,Labels)

labeledge(H,idx,Labels)

Description

labeledge(H,s,t,Labels) labels the edges specified by (s,t) node pairs with the character vectors or strings contained in Labels. The lengths of s, t, and Labels must be equal, or Labels can be scalar. If there are multiple edges between s and t, then the same label is applied to all of them.

labeledge(H,idx,Labels) specifies the edges to label using logical or numeric edge indices.

Examples

Label Graph Edge Weight

Create and plot a graph.

s = [1 1 1 2 2];
t = [2 3 4 2 5];
G = graph(s,t);
h = plot(G);

Label the edge weights using labeledge.

weights = [5 10 15 10 10];
labeledge(h,1:numedges(G),weights)

Add Text Labels to Graph Edges

Create and plot a graph.

s = [1 1 2 2 3];
t = [2 3 3 4 4];
G = graph(s,t);
h = plot(G);

Add text labels to three of the five graph edges.

labelText = {'ABC' 'DEF' 'GHI'};
labeledge(h,[1 1 2],[2 3 3],labelText)

Input Arguments

H — Input graph plot

GraphPlot object

Input graph plot, specified as a GraphPlot object. Use the graph or digraph functions to create a graph, and then use plot with an output argument to return a GraphPlot object.

Example: H = plot(G)

s,t — Node pairs (as separate arguments)

node indices | node names

Node pairs, specified as separate arguments of node indices or node names. Similarly located elements in s and t specify the source and target nodes for edges in the graph.

This table shows the different ways to refer to one or more nodes either by their numeric node indices or by their node names.

Form	Single Node	Multiple Nodes
Node index	Scalar Example: 1	Vector Example: [1 2 3]
Node name	Character vector Example: 'A'	Cell array of character vectors Example: {'A' 'B' 'C'}
	String scalar Example: "A"	String array Example: ["A" "B" "C"]

Example: labeledge(H,[1 2 2],[2 3 4],{'label1' 'label2' 'label3'})

Example: labeledge(H,{'a' 'b' 'b'},{'b' 'c' 'd'},{'label1' 'label2' 'label3'})

idx — Edge indices

scalar | vector

Edge indices, specified as a scalar, vector of positive integers, or logical vector.

• A vector of positive integers specifies edge indices for a graph G corresponding to rows in the table G.Edges, such that G.Edges(idx,:) returns the end nodes of the edge. In this form, the maximum value for idx is numedges(G), and the number of selected nodes is equal to the number of indices in idx.

• A logical vector specifies whether each edge is labeled. In this form, the length of the logical vector must be numedges(G), and the number of selected nodes is equal to the number of nonzero indices in idx.

Example: labeledge(H,[1 3 5 7],{'label1' 'label2' 'label3' 'label4'})

Labels — Edge labels

character vector | string scalar | cell array of character vectors | string array

Edge labels, specified as a character vector, string scalar, cell array of character vectors, or string array.

• If Labels is a character vector or string scalar, then labeledge uses that label for each specified edge.

• If Labels is a cell array or string array, then it must contain a label for each specified edge.

Data Types: char | cell | string

Version History

Introduced in R2015b