createWindowFromSelection: createWindowFromSelection

In RCytoscape: Display and manipulate graphs in Cytoscape

Description

All selected nodes, their connecting edges, and associated attributes are copied into a new CytoscapeWindow, with the supplied title.

Usage

createWindowFromSelection(obj, new.windowTitle, return.graph)

Arguments

obj	a CytoscapeWindowClass object.
new.windowTitle	a String.
return.graph	an logical object.

Value

A new CytoscapeWindow object, with the graph slot populated with the new selected subgraph, if requested. If not requested, the graph slot holds an empty graph.

Author(s)

Paul Shannon

See Also

selectNodes

Examples

  cy <- CytoscapeConnection ()
  title <- 'createWindowFromSelection demo'

  cw <-  new.CytoscapeWindow (title, makeSimpleGraph ())
  displayGraph (cw)
  redraw (cw)
  layoutNetwork(cw)
  selectNodes (cw, c ('A', 'C'))
 
  new.window.title <- 'NEW WINDOW'
  if (new.window.title %in% as.character (getWindowList (cy)))
    deleteWindow (cy, new.window.title)

  c2 <- createWindowFromSelection (cw, new.window.title, TRUE)
  redraw (c2)
  layoutNetwork(c2)

  clearSelection (c2)
  selectNodes (c2, 'C')
  print (getSelectedNodeCount (c2))  # should be 1

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