Cnetwork-class: Definition for S4 class Cnetwork
In dcGOR: Analysis of Ontologies and Protein Domain Annotations

Description Value Slots Creation Methods Access See Also Examples

Cnetwork is an S4 class to store a contact network, such as the one from RWR-based contact between samples/terms by dcRWRpipeline. It has 2 slots: nodeInfo and adjMatrix

Class Cnetwork

nodeInfo: An object of S4 class InfoDataFrame, describing information on nodes/domains.
adjMatrix: An object of S4 class AdjData, containing symmetric adjacency data matrix for an indirect domain network

An object of this class can be created via: new("Cnetwork", nodeInfo, adjMatrix)

Class-specific methods:

dim(): retrieve the dimension in the object
adjMatrix(): retrieve the slot 'adjMatrix' in the object
nodeInfo(): retrieve the slot 'nodeInfo' (as class InfoDataFrame) in the object
nInfo(): retrieve nodeInfo (as data.frame) in the object
nodeNames(): retrieve node/term names (ie, row names of nodeInfo) in the object

Standard generic methods:

str(): compact display of the content in the object
show(): abbreviated display of the object
as(matrix, "Cnetwork"): convert a matrix to an object of class Cnetwork
as(dgCMatrix, "Cnetwork"): convert a dgCMatrix (a sparse matrix) to an object of class Cnetwork
[i]: get the subset of the same class

Ways to access information on this class:

showClass("Cnetwork"): show the class definition
showMethods(classes="Cnetwork"): show the method definition upon this class
getSlots("Cnetwork"): get the name and class of each slot in this class
slotNames("Cnetwork"): get the name of each slot in this class
selectMethod(f, signature="Cnetwork"): retrieve the definition code for the method 'f' defined in this class

Cnetwork-method

# create an object of class Cnetwork, only given a matrix
adjM <- matrix(runif(25),nrow=5,ncol=5)
as(adjM, "Cnetwork")

# create an object of class Cnetwork, given a matrix plus information on nodes
# 1) create nodeI: an object of class InfoDataFrame
data <- data.frame(id=paste("Domain", 1:5, sep="_"),
level=rep("SCOP",5), description=I(LETTERS[1:5]),
row.names=paste("Domain", 1:5, sep="_"))
nodeI <- new("InfoDataFrame", data=data)
nodeI
# 2) create an object of class Cnetwork
# VERY IMPORTANT: make sure having consistent names between nodeInfo and adjMatrix
adjM <- matrix(runif(25),nrow=5,ncol=5)
colnames(adjM) <- rownames(adjM) <- rowNames(nodeI)
x <- new("Cnetwork", adjMatrix=adjM, nodeInfo=nodeI)
x
# 3) look at various methods defined on class Cnetwork
dim(x)
adjMatrix(x)
nodeInfo(x)
nInfo(x)
nodeNames(x)
# 4) get the subset
x[1:2]