`is_bipartite()` has wrong summary in doc tooltip

[szhorvat]

The is_bipartite() doc tooltip in RStudio is misleading. This function does not create a graph, it just checks some attributes.

Can we have this put in a separate doc page @maelle ?

(Mathematically speaking, it doesn't even check if the graph is bipartite! But that's a topic for #709)

[szhorvat]

The current docs say,

is_bipartite() checks whether the graph is bipartite or not. It just checks whether the graph has a vertex attribute called type.

This should be revised to something like

is_bipartite() just checks whether the graph has a vertex attribute called type. It does not check whether the graph is bipartite in the mathematical sense. Use [bipartite_mapping()] for that.

(Edit as you see fit.)

[maelle]

Do the other interfaces to igraph have the same "confusing" names for those?

[szhorvat]

No. This is specific to R.

Personally I strongly dislike this, and I would much rather use is_bipartite() to test if a graph is mathematically bipartite, but that's another project on its own ...

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