getPositionR Documentation

getPosition

Description

Get the position of the specified nodes on the CytoscapeWindow canvas. Useful in retrieving the current position of nodes in the window.

Usage

getPosition(obj, node.names)

Arguments

obj a CytoscapeWindowClass object.
node.names a list of strings, the names of nodes to select.

Value

A names list of x,y pairs; names are the identifiers of nodes supplied when the graph was created.

Author(s)

Paul Shannon

Examples

  cw <- new.CytoscapeWindow ('getPosition.test', graph=makeSimpleGraph())
  displayGraph (cw)
  layoutNetwork (cw)
  getPosition (cw, c ('A', 'B', 'C'))