Vertex shapes {igraph} | R Documentation |
Starting from version 0.5.1 igraph supports different vertex shapes when plotting graphs.
Note that the current vertex shape implementation is experimental and
it might change in the future. Currently vertex shapes are implemented
only for plot.igraph
.
In igraph a vertex shape is defined by a function that 1) provides information about the size of the shape for clipping the edges and 2) plots the shape if requested. These functions are called “shape functions” in the rest of this manual page.
Shape functions have a ‘mode
’ argument that decides in
which mode they should operate. ‘clip
’ selects clipping
mode and ‘plot
’ selects plotting mode.
In clipping mode a shape function has the following arguments:
el
argument.coords
.clip
” for choosing clipping mode.vertex
”, “edge
” or
“plot
” to decide the type of the parameter, the
second is a character string giving the name of the
parameter. E.g.
params("vertex", "size")
both
”,
“from
” and “to
”. If
“from
” the function is expected to clip the
first column in the el
edge list, “to
”
selects the second column, “both
” selects both.
In ‘clipping’ mode, a shape function should return a matrix
with the same number of rows as the el
arguments.
If end
is both
then the matrix must have four
columns, otherwise two. The matrix contains the modified coordinates,
with the clipping applied.
In plotting mode the following arguments are supplied to the shape function:
coords
argument.plot
” for choosing plotting mode.In ‘plotting’ mode the return value of the shape function is not used.
Gabor Csardi csardi@rmki.kfki.hu
## Not run: g <- graph.ring(10, dir=TRUE, mut=TRUE) plot(g, vertex.shape="rectangle", layout=layout.circle) ## End(Not run)