tkplot()
and its companion functions serve as an interactive graph
drawing facility. Not all parameters of the plot can be changed
interactively right now though, e.g. the colors of vertices, edges, and also
others have to be pre-defined.
Usage
tkplot(graph, canvas.width = 450, canvas.height = 450, ...)
tk_close(tkp.id, window.close = TRUE)
tk_off()
tk_fit(tkp.id, width = NULL, height = NULL)
tk_center(tkp.id)
tk_reshape(tkp.id, newlayout, ..., params)
tk_postscript(tkp.id)
tk_coords(tkp.id, norm = FALSE)
tk_set_coords(tkp.id, coords)
tk_rotate(tkp.id, degree = NULL, rad = NULL)
tk_canvas(tkp.id)
Arguments
- graph
The
graph
to plot.- canvas.width, canvas.height
The size of the tkplot drawing area.
- ...
Additional plotting parameters. See igraph.plotting for the complete list.
- tkp.id
The id of the tkplot window to close/reshape/etc.
- window.close
Leave this on the default value.
- width
The width of the rectangle for generating new coordinates.
- height
The height of the rectangle for generating new coordinates.
- newlayout
The new layout, see the
layout
parameter of tkplot.- params
Extra parameters in a list, to pass to the layout function.
- norm
Logical, should we norm the coordinates.
- coords
Two-column numeric matrix, the new coordinates of the vertices, in absolute coordinates.
- degree
The degree to rotate the plot.
- rad
The degree to rotate the plot, in radian.
Value
tkplot()
returns an integer, the id of the plot, this can be
used to manipulate it from the command line.
tk_canvas()
returns tkwin
object, the Tk canvas.
tk_coords()
returns a matrix with the coordinates.
tk_close()
, tk_off()
, tk_fit()
,
tk_reshape()
, tk_postscript()
, tk_center()
and tk_rotate()
return NULL
invisibly.
Details
tkplot()
is an interactive graph drawing facility. It is not very well
developed at this stage, but it should be still useful.
It's handling should be quite straightforward most of the time, here are some remarks and hints.
There are different popup menus, activated by the right mouse button, for vertices and edges. Both operate on the current selection if the vertex/edge under the cursor is part of the selection and operate on the vertex/edge under the cursor if it is not.
One selection can be active at a time, either a vertex or an edge selection.
A vertex/edge can be added to a selection by holding the control
key
while clicking on it with the left mouse button. Doing this again deselect
the vertex/edge.
Selections can be made also from the "Select" menu. The "Select some
vertices" dialog allows to give an expression for the vertices to be
selected: this can be a list of numeric R expessions separated by commas,
like 1,2:10,12,14,15
for example. Similarly in the "Select some
edges" dialog two such lists can be given and all edges connecting a vertex
in the first list to one in the second list will be selected.
In the color dialog a color name like 'orange' or RGB notation can also be used.
The tkplot()
command creates a new Tk window with the graphical
representation of graph
. The command returns an integer number, the
tkplot id. The other commands utilize this id to be able to query or
manipulate the plot.
tk_close()
closes the Tk plot with id tkp.id
.
tk_off()
closes all Tk plots.
tk_fit()
fits the plot to the given rectangle
(width
and height
), if some of these are NULL
the
actual physical width od height of the plot window is used.
tk_reshape()
applies a new layout to the plot, its optional
parameters will be collected to a list analogous to layout.par
.
tk_postscript()
creates a dialog window for saving the plot
in postscript format.
tk_canvas()
returns the Tk canvas object that belongs to a graph
plot. The canvas can be directly manipulated then, e.g. labels can be added,
it could be saved to a file programmatically, etc. See an example below.
tk_coords()
returns the coordinates of the vertices in a matrix.
Each row corresponds to one vertex.
tk_set_coords()
sets the coordinates of the vertices. A two-column
matrix specifies the new positions, with each row corresponding to a single
vertex.
tk_center()
shifts the figure to the center of its plot window.
tk_rotate()
rotates the figure, its parameter can be given either
in degrees or in radians.
tkplot.center tkplot.rotate
Examples
g <- make_ring(10)
tkplot(g)
## Saving a tkplot() to a file programmatically
g <- make_star(10, center=10)
E(g)$width <- sample(1:10, ecount(g), replace=TRUE)
lay <- layout_nicely(g)
id <- tkplot(g, layout=lay)
canvas <- tk_canvas(id)
tcltk::tkpostscript(canvas, file="/tmp/output.eps")
tk_close(id)
## Setting the coordinates and adding a title label
g <- make_ring(10)
id <- tkplot(make_ring(10), canvas.width=450, canvas.height=500)
canvas <- tk_canvas(id)
padding <- 20
coords <- norm_coords(layout_in_circle(g), 0+padding, 450-padding,
50+padding, 500-padding)
tk_set_coords(id, coords)
width <- as.numeric(tkcget(canvas, "-width"))
height <- as.numeric(tkcget(canvas, "-height"))
tkcreate(canvas, "text", width/2, 25, text="My title",
justify="center", font=tcltk::tkfont.create(family="helvetica",
size=20,weight="bold"))
Author
Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com