Set Legend for a Gene Chart — GC

This function configures the legend for a gene chart. It allows toggling the legend's visibility, setting a background color, and assigning custom labels for the legend entries. The function can also handle additional customizations through various options.

Usage

GC_legend(
  GC_chart,
  group = NULL,
  show = TRUE,
  backgroundColor = "#0000",
  order = list(),
  position = "bottom",
  style = list(),
  legendOptions = list(),
  legendTextOptions = list(),
  ...
)

Arguments

GC_chart: The gene chart object to be modified.
group: Optional; character or NULL, specifies the groups to include in the legend. If NULL, groups are taken from the 'group' attribute of the 'GC_chart' object.
show: Logical, specifies whether to display the legend.
backgroundColor: String, the background color of the legend.
order: Optional; list, specifies the order of the legend labels.
position: Character. Position of the legend, either "top" or "bottom". Default is "bottom".
style: A list of CSS styles to be applied to the chart container. Each element of the list should be a valid CSS property-value pair. For example, list(backgroundColor = "white", border = "2px solid black"). Default is an empty list.
legendOptions: List, additional options for the legend.
legendTextOptions: List, additional text options for the legend.
...: Additional arguments to be passed to the legend configuration.

Value

Returns the modified gene chart object with the legend configured.

Examples

genes_data <- data.frame(
  start = c(10, 90, 130, 170, 210),
  end = c(40, 120, 160, 200, 240),
  name = c('Gene 1', 'Gene 3', 'Gene 4', 'Gene 5', 'Gene 6'),
  group = c('A', 'B', 'B', 'A', 'C'),
  cluster = c('A', 'A', 'A', 'B', 'B')
)

# Customize legend
GC_chart(genes_data, cluster = "cluster", group = "group", height = "200px") %>%
  GC_legend(
    position = "top", #bottom
    orientation = "horizontal", #vertical
    x = 0,
    y = 0,
    width = NULL, # 100 / "100px" / 50%
    adjustHeight = TRUE,
    backgroundColor = "#0000",
    order = list(),
    positions = "bottom",
    style = list(
      backgroundColor = "#0000"
      # Any other CSS styles
    ),
    legendOptions = list(
      cursor = "pointer",
      colorScheme = NULL,
      customColors = NULL # c("red", "green", "orange")
      # Additional styles
    ),
    legendTextOptions = list(
      cursor = "pointer",
      textAnchor = "start",
      dy = ".35em",
      fontSize = "12px",
      fontFamily = "sans-serif",
      fill = "black"
      # Additional styles
    )
  )