R: Internal function to create a new network from the ergm MCMC...

newnw.extract {ergm}

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Internal function to create a new network from the ergm MCMC sample output

An internal function to generate a new network object using the output (lists of toggled heads and tail vertices) from an ergm MCMC or SAN process.

newnw.extract(oldnw, z, output = "network", response = NULL)

`oldnw`	a network object (presumably input to the ergm process) from which the network- and vertex-level attributes will be copied
`z`	a list having either a component named `newedgelist` or two components `newtails` and `newheads` containing the ids of the head and tails vertices of the edges. Optionall `newweights` containing edgewights.
`output`	passed to `network.update`, which claims not to use it
`response`	optional character string giving the name of the edge attribute where the edge values (weight/count) should be stored.

a network object with properties copied from oldnw and edges corresponding to the lists of tails and head vertex ids in z

This is an internal ergm function, it most cases with edgelists to be converted to networks it will probably be simpler to use network.edgelist