prepare_upset_data: Prepare data for an UpSet plot

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Prepare data for an UpSet plot

Description

Converts raw input (long data frame, wide data frame, named list, or an existing UpsetPlotData object) into the internal format expected by UpsetPlotAtomic(). This is the data-preparation workhorse that handles all input format parsing.

Usage

prepare_upset_data(
  data,
  in_form = "auto",
  group_by = NULL,
  group_by_sep = "_",
  id_by = NULL,
  specific = TRUE
)

Arguments

data	A data frame, a named list of element vectors, or an UpsetPlotData object.
in_form	A character string specifying the input format. One of "auto" (default; detect from data structure), "long", "wide", "list", or "upset".
group_by	A character vector of column name(s) defining the sets. In long format, this is the column with set labels. In wide format, these are the set-membership columns. When NULL in wide format, all columns except id_by are used. Ignored for list and upset inputs.
group_by_sep	A character string to concatenate multiple group_by columns when in_form = "long". Default: "_".
id_by	A character string specifying the column name for instance identifiers. Required for long format; optional for wide format (a synthetic .id column is created if omitted).
specific	A logical value. When TRUE (default), only specific intersections are returned (elements belonging exclusively to the shown set combination). When FALSE, all overlapping items are included. See https://github.com/gaospecial/ggVennDiagram/issues/64.

Value

An UpsetPlotData object — a data frame with an Intersection list-column of set labels and one row per element. A "group_order" attribute preserves the original set order.

Input formats

Long format — one row per (set, element) pair:

group_by id_by
A        a1
A        a2
B        a1
B        a3

Requires both group_by and id_by.

Wide format — each row is an element, each set has a logical or 0/1 membership column:

A      B
TRUE   TRUE
TRUE   FALSE
FALSE  TRUE

The set columns are identified by group_by (or all columns except id_by when group_by = NULL).

List format — a named list of element vectors:

list(A = c("a1", "a2"), B = c("a1", "a3"))

UpsetPlotData — a pre-processed object (returned by this function) is returned unchanged (with a warning if group_by is also provided).

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