RCy3 (version 1.2.0)

deleteEdgeAttribute: deleteEdgeAttribute

Description

Node and edge attributes are usually added to a Cytoscape network by defining them on the graph used to construct a CytoscapeWindow. Once Cytoscape has been passed an attribute, however, it persists until you exit the application or delete it by using the Cytoscape graphical user interface or by calling this method.

Usage

deleteEdgeAttribute(obj, attribute.name)

Arguments

obj

a CytoscapeConnectionClass object or CytoscapeWindow object.

attribute.name

a character string, the name of the attribute you wish to delete.

Value

nothing

See Also

getEdgeAttributeNames addEdgeAttribute deleteNodeAttribute

Examples

  # first, delete existing windows to save memory:
  deleteAllWindows(CytoscapeConnection())

  window.name = 'demo.deleteEdgeAttribute'
  cw = CytoscapeWindow (window.name, graph=makeSimpleGraph ())
  setDefaultEdgeLineWidth (cw, 5);
  displayGraph (cw)
  redraw (cw)
  layoutNetwork(cw)
  
    # before:
  print (getEdgeAttributeNames (cw))
    # [1] "name"        "interaction" "edgeType"    "score"       "misc"  
  deleteEdgeAttribute (cw, 'score')
    # after
  print (getEdgeAttributeNames (cw))
    # [1] "name"        "interaction" "edgeType"    "misc"