imageMap-methods {Rgraphviz}R Documentation

Write an HTML IMG tag together with a MAP image map.

Description

Write an HTML IMG tag together with a MAP image map.

Usage

  ## S4 method for signature 'Ragraph, connection, list,
  ##   character':
  imageMap(object, con, tags, imgname, width, height, usr = par("usr"))

Arguments

object The graph layout for which we want to create an image map.
con Connection to which the image map is written.
tags Named list whose elements are named character vectors. Names must correspond to node names in object. See details.
imgname Character. Name of the image file (for example PNG file) that contains the plot.
width Width of the image.
height Height of the image.
usr Numeric vector of length 4. The user coordinates in the plot window that object was plotted into.

Details

The most important tags are TITLE, HREF, and TARGET. If the list tags contains an element with name TITLE, then this must be a named character vector containing the tooltips that are to be displayed when the mouse moves over a node. The names of the nodes are specified in the names attribute of the character vector and must match those of object.

Similarly, HREF may be used to specify hyperlinks that the browser can follow when the mouse clicks on a node, and TARGET to specify the target browser window.

Currently, only rectangular regions are implemented; the actual shape of the nodes as specified in object is ignored. Also, tags for edges of the graph are currently not supported.

This function is typically used with the following sequence of steps:

  1. Create a graph layout with agopen
  2. Plot it into a bitmap device, e.g. jpeg or png.
  3. Write HTML header.
  4. Call the imageMap function.
  5. Optionally, write further text into the HTML connection.
  6. Close HTML file.

Value

The function is called for its side effect, which is writing text into the connection con.

Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber http://www.dkfz.de/mga/whuber

See Also

agopen, openHTMLpage

Examples

fhtml = paste(tempfile(), ".html", sep="")
fpng  =paste(tempfile(), ".png", sep="")

if(capabilities()["png"] && interactive()) {

  ## Create and layout a random graph
  set.seed(123)
  g  = randomEGraph(letters[14:22], 0.2)
  lg = agopen(g, name="My layout")

  ## Make tooltips and hyperlinks
  tooltip = paste("This is node", nodes(g))
  url = paste("This could be a link for node", nodes(g))
  names(url) = names(tooltip) = nodes(g)

  ## Plot it
  width = height = 512
  png(fpng, width=width, height=height)
  par(mai=rep(0,4))
  plot(g)

  ## Write an HTML file with the image map
  con = file(fhtml, open="wt")
  writeLines("<html><head><title>Click Me</title></head><body>\n", con)

  imageMap(lg, con, fpng, tags=list(HREF=url, TITLE=tooltip), width=width, height=height)

  writeLines("</body></html>", con)
  dev.off()
  close(con)
  cat("Now have a look at file", fhtml, "with your browser.\n")
}

[Package Rgraphviz version 1.8.0 Index]