initEdgeAttribute: initEdgeAttribute

In RCytoscape: Display and manipulate graphs in Cytoscape

Description

Create the edge attribute slot that the Bioconductor graph class requires, including a default value, and then specifying what the base type (or 'class') is – 'char', 'integer', or 'numeric' – which is needed by RCytoscape. This method converts these standard R data type names, to the forms needed by Cytoscape.

Usage

initEdgeAttribute(graph, attribute.name, attribute.type, default.value)

Arguments

graph	a Bioconductor graph object.
attribute.name	a string, the name of the new edge attribute.
attribute.type	a string, either 'char', 'integer', or 'numeric'
default.value	something sensible, of the right type

Value

Returns the modified graph.

Author(s)

Paul Shannon

See Also

initNodeAttribute makeSimpleGraph

Examples

  g = new ('graphNEL', edgemode='directed')
  g = initEdgeAttribute (g, 'edgeType', 'char', 'associates with')

RCytoscape documentation built on Nov. 17, 2017, 10:52 a.m.