plot_path_trajectories: Draw optimal temporal paths as a trajectory tree

In Dynet: Tidy Temporal Network Analysis

Draw optimal temporal paths as a trajectory tree

Description

Draws the optimal route family returned by paths() using the trajectory-tree grammar ported from the transitiontrees package: leaves stacked in depth-first order, parents centred on their children, and branches carried by a cosine smoothstep. Nodes follow that package's horizontal phylogram rather than its capsule style – a count-sized filled circle with its label set below it. Node size and branch width always show how many optimal routes use a branch. Every node also prints the value of the chosen measure beside its vertex name, so nothing is encoded by colour alone: the default frequency view is free to fill each node with its vertex's own colour, while the "time" and "predictability" views fill from a ramp with a colour bar.

Forward paths grow away from the queried source. Backward paths are flipped so the queried target is the root and possible senders branch away from it. A named vertex repeats whenever it is reached under a different temporal history.

Usage

plot_path_trajectories(
  x,
  measure = c("frequency", "time", "predictability"),
  orientation = c("horizontal", "vertical"),
  min_count = 1L,
  base_size = 11,
  palette = "okabe"
)

Arguments

x	A result from paths() or from path_trajectories().
measure	What each node reports, and what fills it. "frequency", the default, is the number of optimal routes through the branch and fills by vertex, since node size already carries the count; "time" is the attained time at the node and "predictability" the branching fraction of the parent's routes that continue along the branch, both filled from a ramp.
orientation	"horizontal" grows the tree left to right with hop number on the x axis; "vertical" grows it top to bottom.
min_count	Draw only branches used by at least this many optimal routes. Defaults to 1, the complete family. Ignored when x is already a path_trajectories() result.
base_size	Base text size, as in ggplot2::theme_minimal(). Defaults to eleven.
palette	Palette for the vertex colours of the frequency view, as in plot.dynet(). Defaults to "okabe".

Value

A ggplot object. A tree with no branch to draw raises dynet_empty_result; an x that is neither a paths() nor a path_trajectories() result, or a base_size that is not one positive number, raises dynet_bad_input.

See Also

path_trajectories() for the tidy tree behind the plot.

Examples

dn <- dynet(school_contacts)
routes <- paths(dn, from = "Ana")
plot_path_trajectories(routes)
plot_path_trajectories(routes, measure = "time", orientation = "vertical")

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