EnrichMapAtomic: Atomic enrichment map (internal)

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Atomic enrichment map (internal)

Description

Core implementation for drawing a single enrichment map – a gene-set similarity network where nodes represent enriched terms, node fill colour encodes cluster membership, node size encodes the number of genes per term, and edge thickness encodes the number of overlapping genes between pairs of terms. This is the workhorse behind the exported EnrichMap function – it takes a single data frame (no split_by support) and returns a ggplot object.

The function constructs an undirected graph from the term-term gene overlap matrix, computes a force-directed layout, detects term clusters via igraph community detection, and renders the result as a labelled network plot with ggforce hull annotations around each cluster.

Usage

EnrichMapAtomic(
  data,
  in_form = "clusterProfiler",
  top_term = 100,
  metric = "p.adjust",
  layout = "fr",
  minchar = 2,
  cluster = "fast_greedy",
  show_keyword = FALSE,
  nlabel = 4,
  character_width = 50,
  words_excluded = plotthis::words_excluded,
  mark = "ellipse",
  label = c("term", "feature"),
  labelsize = 5,
  expand = c(0.4, 0.4),
  theme = "theme_this",
  theme_args = list(),
  palette = "Paired",
  palcolor = NULL,
  palreverse = FALSE,
  alpha = 1,
  aspect.ratio = 1,
  legend.position = "right",
  legend.direction = "vertical",
  title = NULL,
  subtitle = NULL,
  xlab = NULL,
  ylab = NULL,
  seed = 8525,
  ...
)

Arguments

data	A data frame containing enrichment results in clusterProfiler format with at least the columns: Description, GeneRatio, pvalue, p.adjust, and geneID. ID, qvalue, BgRatio, and Count are optional. Description is the term description, displayed as the default keyword. GeneRatio is the fraction of input genes annotated to the term (e.g. "10/500"). BgRatio is the fraction of background genes annotated to the term (e.g. "50/20000"). Count, if given, must equal the numerator of GeneRatio. geneID contains gene symbols separated by "/".
in_form	A character string specifying the input format. When "auto" (default), the function infers the format from the column names: clusterProfiler columns (pvalue, p.adjust, qvalue) or Enrichr columns (P.value, Adjusted.P.value). Other options are "clusterProfiler" and "enrichr".
top_term	An integer specifying the maximum number of terms to include. Terms are ranked by metric (ascending). Default 100.
metric	A character string specifying the significance metric used for top-term selection and node scoring: "p.adjust" (default) or "pvalue". The value is transformed as -\log_{10}(metric).
layout	A character string naming the igraph layout algorithm. Built-in shortcuts: "circle", "tree", "grid". Otherwise, the suffix passed to layout_with_<layout> in igraph (e.g. "fr" for Fruchterman-Reingold, "kk" for Kamada-Kawai). Default "fr".
minchar	An integer specifying the minimum character length for words to be included as keywords when show_keyword = TRUE. Default 2.
cluster	A character string naming the igraph community detection algorithm. The suffix passed to cluster_<cluster> in igraph (e.g. "fast_greedy", "walktrap", "edge_betweenness", "infomap"). Default "fast_greedy".
show_keyword	A logical value. When TRUE, the Description text is tokenized and the most significant words per cluster are shown as keywords. When FALSE (default), the original term descriptions are used as labels.
nlabel	An integer specifying the number of keywords or term descriptions to show per cluster in the legend labels. Default 4.
character_width	An integer specifying the maximum width (in characters) at which keyword labels are wrapped via strwrap(width = character_width). Default 50.
words_excluded	A character vector of words to exclude from keyword extraction when show_keyword = TRUE. Defaults to plotthis::words_excluded.
mark	A character string naming the ggforce hull function. One of "ellipse" (default), "rect", "circle", or "text" – passed as the suffix to geom_mark_<mark>.
label	A character string specifying what information to display in the legend labels. Either "term" (default; shows top term descriptions/keywords per cluster) or "feature" (shows top gene symbols per cluster).
labelsize	A numeric value specifying the font size of the cluster labels drawn by the ggforce mark layer. Default 5.
expand	A numeric vector of length 2 (or 4) specifying the expansion of the x and y axes, processed via norm_expansion(). Default c(0.4, 0.4).
theme	A character string or a theme class (i.e. ggplot2::theme_classic) specifying the theme to use. Default is "theme_this".
theme_args	A list of arguments to pass to the theme function.
palette	A character string specifying the palette to use. A named list or vector can be used to specify the palettes for different split_by values.
palcolor	A character string specifying the color to use in the palette. A named list can be used to specify the colors for different split_by values. If some values are missing, the values from the palette will be used (palcolor will be NULL for those values).
palreverse	A logical value indicating whether to reverse the palette. Default is FALSE.
alpha	A numeric value specifying the transparency of the plot.
aspect.ratio	A numeric value specifying the aspect ratio of the plot.
legend.position	A character string specifying the position of the legend. if waiver(), for single groups, the legend will be "none", otherwise "right".
legend.direction	A character string specifying the direction of the legend.
title	A character string specifying the title of the plot. A function can be used to generate the title based on the default title. This is useful when split_by is used and the title needs to be dynamic.
subtitle	A character string specifying the subtitle of the plot.
xlab	A character string specifying the x-axis label.
ylab	A character string specifying the y-axis label.
seed	The random seed to use. Default is 8525.
...	Additional arguments.

Value

A ggplot object with height and width attributes (in inches) attached.

Architecture

1. ggplot dispatch – selects gglogger::ggplot or ggplot2::ggplot based on getOption("plotthis.gglogger.enabled").

2. Data format conversion – if data inherits from "enrichResult", converts via as.data.frame(); if in_form == "enrichr", calls prepare_enrichr_result() to rename columns and infer GeneRatio/BgRatio.

3. Column validation – check_columns() verifies that Description, GeneRatio, pvalue, p.adjust, and geneID are present.

4. Top-term selection – when top_term is not NULL, selects the top N terms by the chosen metric via dplyr::slice_min().

5. Metric transformation – computes -\log_{10}(metric) as the node scoring variable. Splits geneID on "/" to obtain per-term gene lists.

6. ID assignment – uses the ID column if present; otherwise falls back to row names or generates synthetic IDs ("GS1", "GS2", ...).

7. Edge construction – creates all pairwise combinations (utils::combn()) of term IDs and computes the overlap count (intersection of geneID elements) as edge weight. Edges with weight 0 are dropped.

8. igraph graph construction – igraph::graph_from_data_frame() builds an undirected graph from the edge list, with node attributes from the term data.

9. Layout computation – dispatches to the chosen igraph layout function (layout_with_*) or one of the built-in shortcuts ("circle", "tree", "grid").

10. Cluster detection – runs the chosen igraph clustering algorithm (cluster_*) to group related terms into modules.

11. Node coordinates – extracts vertex positions and cluster assignments into a data frame with dim1, dim2, and clusters columns.

12. Keyword extraction – when show_keyword = TRUE, tokenizes Description text, filters words by minchar and words_excluded, scores remaining words by summed metric per cluster, and keeps the top nlabel keywords. Otherwise, the term Description texts themselves are used as keywords.

13. Gene keyword extraction – always computes per-cluster gene-level keywords (top nlabel genes by summed metric) for the feature legend mode.

14. Mark layer – ggforce::geom_mark_*() (ellipse, rect, circle, or text) draws cluster hulls with labels containing the cluster ID and either term or feature keywords.

15. Edge rendering – ggplot2::geom_segment() draws edges with line width proportional to overlap weight.

16. Node rendering – ggplot2::geom_point(shape = 21) draws nodes sized by Count and filled by cluster membership.

17. Scale configuration – scale_size() for node size, scale_linewidth() for edge width, scale_fill_manual() for cluster colours with custom legend labels (term keywords or gene keywords depending on label).

18. Theme and dimensions – applies the resolved theme, sets aspect ratio and legend position, then calls calculate_plot_dimensions() to attach height/width attributes.

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