[BioC] topGO: full-length descriptions in graph output

Frank Schwach fs5 at sanger.ac.uk
Sun Sep 16 23:00:49 CEST 2012


Hi Jim,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did notice that and I tried to change it 
but it had no effect. I'll try again - maybe I did something wrong.

Cheers,

Frank


On 13/09/12 18:34, James W. MacDonald wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
>
>
> On 9/13/2012 4:29 AM, Frank Schwach [guest] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anybody know if there is any way in the topGO package to force 
>> full-length descriptions of the GO terms to be printed in the graph? 
>> By default, only about 20 characters of the descriptions are printed.
>
> If you look at the help page for showSigOfNodes(), there is an 
> argument .NO.CHAR that is listed as an internal function. This 
> controls the number of characters that are shown in the graph, and 
> defaults to 20.
>
> You can bump that up to whatever value you see fit, but note that it 
> *is* listed as an internal function, so you are stepping into the deep 
> end of the pool - if things don't work the way you want, it will 
> likely be up to you to figure out why and fix it.
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>   -- output of sessionInfo():
>>
>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>   [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=C
>>   [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] topGO_1.16.2         SparseM_0.85         GO.db_2.4.1
>> [4] RSQLite_0.9-1        DBI_0.2-5            AnnotationDbi_1.10.1
>> [7] Biobase_2.8.0        graph_1.26.0
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.11.1    lattice_0.18-8 tools_2.11.1
>>
>>
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