how can I add a label for granges using the geom_rect ?
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潘晓光 • 0
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Last seen 15 months ago
China

geom_rect(data,..., xlab, ylab, main,
          facets = NULL, stat = c("stepping", "identity"),
          rect.height = NULL,
          group.selfish = TRUE)

for the GRanges object, the function didn't give the parameter to plot names for each Grange when using stat_stepping. But how can I know which rect are from which Grange?

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@james-w-macdonald-5106
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Labels seem to be problematic if you have many ranges. Color might be better?

## this is just the example GRanges object
> set.seed(1)
> N <- 100
> gr <- GRanges(seqnames = sample(c("chr1", "chr2", "chr3"),
+                                 size = N, replace = TRUE),
+               IRanges(start = sample(1:300, size = N, replace = TRUE),
+                       width = sample(70:75, size = N,replace = TRUE)),
+               strand = sample(c("+", "-"), size = N, replace = TRUE),
+               value = rnorm(N, 10, 3), score = rnorm(N, 100, 30),
+               sample = sample(c("Normal", "Tumor"),
+                               size = N, replace = TRUE),
+               pair = sample(letters, size = N,
+                             replace = TRUE))
> seqlengths(gr) <- c(400, 1000, 500)
> autoplot(gr, aes(fill = sample))

Seems like a reasonable compromise. But these are just ggplot objects, so you could use e.g., ggrepel to make labels if you really wanted to.

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Thank you so much for your comment. As you say, if I have more than 100 ranges, the color will not be as easy to recognize as the label. But at the most time ,label will be more usefull beacuse we can save the picture as PDF and modify it in Adobe Illustrate.

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For the ggreprl, do you know how to add a label using it? If we use geom_label or geom_text, we need to know the X and Y, but ggbio will randomly make a Y value for each GRange. I can't have X and Y for the label.

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It uses biovizBase:::addStepping under the hood if you use the 'stepping ' argument. It's possible you could use that on the front end and use 'identity' instead.

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Thank you so much, I will try it

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