datatable-to-graph

Creates a graph structure from a datatable containing edge data.

Graph data structure is used to represent networks with nodes and edges. This adaptor turns data from a datatable into a graph data type.

Arguments

Inputs:

data: The datatable containing edge data.

from: The name of the column containing the origin node of the edge.

to: The name of the column containing the destination node of the edge.

direction: Specifies whether the graph is directed or not. Defaults to none (no directionality, producing undirected graph) (this can be altered using force-directed-layout)

Output:

graph: A graph structure defining nodes and edges.

Possible use cases

• Converting a datatable to a graph, which can then be converted to DOT format (using graph-to-dot adaptor), which can then be fed into the network argument in one of the Microreact adaptors (create-microreact-project, update-microreact-project)

• Formatting the data from a spreadsheet before exporting as a DOT file (using graph-to-dot adaptor)

• Preparing data for the force-directed-layout adaptor.