remove nodes without changing the numbering of nodes

I have a graph from which I want to remove nodes but want to keep the labels or the numbering of the nodes as the same before removing nodes. Is that possible with some option?

Answer 1

[Akira Agata]

How about setting a nodelabel for each node?

The following is an example:

s = [1 1 1 2 2 3];
t = [2 3 4 3 4 4];

% Create a graph G with nodelabel '1',...,'4'
G = graph(s,t,[],{'1','2','3','4'});

% Remove the node 1
G = rmnode(G,1);

% Plot the graph
figure
plot(G)