RCy3 (version 1.2.0)

setEdgeAttributesDirect: setEdgeAttributesDirect

Description

Transfer the named edge attributes to Cytoscape. This method is required, for instance, if you wish to run a 'movie.' For example, if you have a time course experiment with different values at successive time points of the 'phosphorylates' or 'binds' relationship between two nodes. With an edgeColor rule already specified, you can animate the display of the edges in the graph by pumping new values of the edge attributes, and then asking for a redraw.

Usage

setEdgeAttributesDirect(obj, attribute.name, attribute.type, edge.names, values)

Arguments

obj

a CytoscapeWindowClass object.

attribute.name

a string one of the attributes defined on the edges.

attribute.type

a string from one of these three groups: (floating, numeric, double), (integer, int), (string, char, character). This parameter is required because RCy3 cannot always infer the type of an attribute.

edge.names

a list of strings, edge names

values

a list of objects of the type specified by 'attribute.name', one per edge

Value

None.

See Also

setEdgeAttributes setNodeAttributes setNodeAttributesDirect

Examples

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

  cw <- CytoscapeWindow ('setEdgeAttributesDirect.test', graph=makeSimpleGraph())
  sendNodes(cw)
  sendEdges(cw)
  edge.names = as.character (cy2.edge.names (cw@graph))
  stopifnot (length (edge.names) == 3)
  edge.values = c ('alligator', 'hedgehog', 'anteater')
  result = setEdgeAttributesDirect (cw, 'misc', 'string', edge.names, edge.values)