geom_edge_tile function

Draw edges as glyphs

This geom draws edges as tiles with their x-position defined by the x-position of the start node, and the y-position defined by the y-position of the end node. As such it will result in a matrix layout when used in conjunction with layout_tbl_graph_matrix()

geom_edge_tile(
  mapping = NULL,
  data = get_edges(),
  position = "identity",
  mirror = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA,
  ...
)

Arguments

• mapping: Set of aesthetic mappings created by ggplot2::aes()

  or ggplot2::aes_(). By default x, y, xend, yend, group and circular are mapped to x, y, xend, yend, edge.id and circular in the edge data.

• data: The return of a call to get_edges() or a data.frame giving edges in correct format (see details for for guidance on the format). See get_edges() for more details on edge extraction.

• position: Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function. Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.

• mirror: Logical. Should edge points be duplicated on both sides of the diagonal. Intended for undirected graphs. Default to FALSE

• show.legend: logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.

• ...: Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also be parameters to the paired geom/stat.

Aesthetics

geom_edge_tile understands the following aesthetics. Bold aesthetics are automatically set, but can be overwritten.

• x
• y
• edge_fill
• edge_colour
• edge_size
• edge_alpha
• filter

Edge aesthetic name expansion

In order to avoid excessive typing edge aesthetic names are automatically expanded. Because of this it is not necessary to write edge_colour within the aes() call as colour will automatically be renamed appropriately.

Examples

require(tidygraph)
gr <- create_notable('zachary') %>%
  mutate(group = group_infomap()) %>%
  morph(to_split, group) %>%
  activate(edges) %>%
  mutate(edge_group = as.character(.N()$group[1])) %>%
  unmorph()

ggraph(gr, 'matrix', sort.by = node_rank_hclust()) +
  geom_edge_tile(aes(fill = edge_group), mirror = TRUE) +
  scale_y_reverse() +
  coord_fixed() +
  labs(edge_colour = 'Infomap Cluster') +
  ggtitle("Zachary' Karate Club")

See Also

Other geom_edge_*: geom_edge_arc(), geom_edge_bend(), geom_edge_bundle_force(), geom_edge_bundle_minimal(), geom_edge_bundle_path(), geom_edge_density(), geom_edge_diagonal(), geom_edge_elbow(), geom_edge_fan(), geom_edge_hive(), geom_edge_link(), geom_edge_loop(), geom_edge_parallel(), geom_edge_point(), geom_edge_sf(), geom_edge_span()

Author(s)

Thomas Lin Pedersen