---
title: "Introduction to bscui"
package: "bscui (version `r packageVersion('bscui')`)"
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theme: cerulean
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```{r setup, message=FALSE, echo=FALSE, include=FALSE, cache=FALSE}
library(knitr)
opts_chunk$set(
include=TRUE,
echo=TRUE,
message=TRUE,
warning=TRUE,
cache=FALSE,
cache.lazy=FALSE
)
library(bscui)
library(xml2)
library(dplyr)
library(readr)
library(stringr)
library(glue)
library(scales)
```
```{js, echo=FALSE}
function toggleCollapse(id) {
var content = document.querySelector('#'+id);
if(content.style.display === 'none' || content.style.display === ''){
content.style.display = 'block';
}else{
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}
```
```{css, echo=FALSE}
/* Hide the content of the collapsible div by default */
.collapsible {
display: none;
border: solid 1px black;
background-color: #FAFA000F;
margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
padding: 5px;
}
.collapse-button {
border: solid 1px black;
border-radius: 3px;
background-color: #CFCFCF;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}
```
The aim of the 'bscui' R package is to render any SVG image as an interactive
figure and convert identified elements into an actionable interface.
This figure can be seamlessly integrated
into '[rmarkdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/)'
and '[Quarto](https://quarto.org/)'
documents, as well as '[shiny](https://shiny.posit.co/)'
applications, allowing manipulation of elements and reporting actions
performed on them.
Here are the main features of 'bscui' figures:
- Interactive view: pan, zoom in/out
- Update the style (e.g., color, stroke, opacity...) of SVG elements
- Update the attribute (e.g., path) of SVG elements
- Export the figure in SVG or PNG format
- Display contextual information when hovering over SVG elements
- Select one or multiple SVG elements (mainly used with 'shiny')
- Click on elements (mainly used with 'shiny')
- Add or remove SVG elements (in 'shiny')
The main motivation behind the development of this package was to be able
to leverage SVG images kindly shared in public knowledge resources
(e.g.,
[EBI anatomograms](https://ebi-gene-expression-group.github.io/anatomogram/),
[SwissBioPics](https://www.swissbiopics.org/),
or [wikipathways](https://www.wikipathways.org/)
)
to display and browse information in the relevant contexts.
The package comes with several pre-processed
examples used to demonstrate the main available features
described in this document.
# Installation and requirements
The 'bscui' R package is available
on [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=bscui).
```{r, eval=FALSE}
install.packages('bscui')
```
## Development version from github
The development version is available
in [github](https://github.com/patzaw/bscui/).
```{r, eval = FALSE}
## Dependencies
install.packages("htmlwidgets")
## Install from github
devtools::install_github("patzaw/bscui")
```
## Vignette requirements
The following packages are not dependencies of 'bscui' strictly speaking but
are required to run code examples discussed in this document.
```{r, eval = FALSE}
library(bscui)
library(xml2)
library(dplyr)
library(readr)
library(stringr)
library(glue)
library(scales)
library(reactable)
library(reactable.extras)
```
::: {#sessionInfo class="collapsible" style="margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px;"}
Built on `r Sys.Date()`
```{r, class.source='fold-hide'}
sessionInfo()
```
:::
- [xml2](https://cran.r-project.org/package=xml2) is used to read SVG files
- [readr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=readr) and
[dplyr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=readr)
are used to read and manipulate tables with figure contextual information
- [stringr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=stringr) and
[glue](https://cran.r-project.org/package=glue) are used to facilitate
the creation of html tags
- [scales](https://cran.r-project.org/package=scales) is used to generate
color scales
- [reactable](https://cran.r-project.org/package=reactable) and
[reactable.extras](https://cran.r-project.org/package=reactable.extras)
are used to manipulate information in a table displayed in the Shiny example
# Building figures
The main function of the package is `bscui()`. It takes as main argument
a character string with SVG code.
The use of [xml2](https://cran.r-project.org/package=xml2) to read SVG files is
not mandatory but it can be useful to validate the SVG and manipulate it before
displaying it.
## Simple example: Animal cells
This example relies on a figure of animal cells taken
from [SwissBioPics](https://www.swissbiopics.org/name/Animal_cell).
```{r}
svg <- xml2::read_xml(system.file(
"examples", "Animal_cells.svg.gz",
package="bscui"
))
```
The simplest way to display the figure is shown below.
```{r}
figure <- bscui(svg)
figure
```
The figure can be grabbed with mouse and enlarged or shrunk using
the mouse wheel. Clicking on the button at the top-left corner of
the figure displays a menu with various functions, including
resetting the view and exporting the figure in SVG or PNG format.
Several configuration choices are made by default but can be changed,
such as the zoom range or the width of the menu.
### Defining UI elements
User Interface (UI) elements are provided as a data frame with the following
columns:
- **id**: the element identifier
- **ui_type**: either "selectable" (several elements can be selected),
"button" (action will be triggered by clicking), "none" (no action on click)
- **title**: a description of the element to display when the mouse hovers
over the element
Information about the different part of a cell were taken
from [UniProt](https://www.uniprot.org/locations).
```{r}
info <- readr::read_tsv(system.file(
"examples", "uniprot_cellular_locations.txt.gz",
package="bscui"
), col_types=strrep("c", 6)) |>
mutate(id = str_remove(`Subcellular location ID`, "-"))
```
The title feature can take simple text or a valid html element as shown below.
```{r}
ui_elements <- info |>
mutate(
ui_type = "selectable",
title = glue(
'
',
"{Name}: {Description}",
"
",
.sep=" "
)
) |>
select(id, ui_type, title)
ui_elements
```
```{r}
figure <- figure |>
set_bscui_ui_elements(ui_elements)
figure
```
### Setting element styles
The style of the elements can be changed with the `set_bscui_styles()` function.
The styles are are provided in a data frame with an id column, providing the
element identifier, and one column per style. Column names should correspond
to a style name in camel case (e.g., "strokeOpacity").
This function can be called several times to change different elements or
different options.
```{r}
figure <- figure |>
set_bscui_styles(
bind_rows(
info |>
filter(Name == "Cytosol") |>
mutate(fill = "#FF7F7F"),
info |>
filter(Name == "Nucleoplasm") |>
mutate(fill = "#7F7FFF")
) |>
select(
id, fill
)
) |>
set_bscui_styles(
info |>
filter(Name == "Endosome") |>
mutate(stroke = "yellow", strokeWidth = "2px") |>
select(id, stroke, strokeWidth)
)
figure
```
### Setting element attributes
Element attributes can also be changed with
the `set_bscui_attributes()` function. The example below shows how to focus
on the nucleus and its content starting from the original figure, by setting
the "display" attribute of all other elements to "none". Also the size of the
nucleolus is slightly increased.
```{r}
nucleus_part <- c(
"SL0191", "SL0190", "SL0182", "SL0188", "SL0494", "SL0180",
"SL0031", "SL0465", "SL0127", "SL0186"
)
figure <- figure |>
set_bscui_attributes(
info |>
filter(
!id %in% nucleus_part
) |>
mutate(display="none") |>
select(id, display)
) |>
set_bscui_attributes(tibble(id="sib_copyright", display="none")) |>
set_bscui_attributes(tibble(id="SL0188", transform="scale(1.8 1.8)")) |>
set_bscui_attributes(
tibble(id="SL0188", transform="translate(-237 -202)"),
append=TRUE
)
figure |>
set_bscui_options(
show_menu=FALSE, zoom_min=1, zoom_max=1, clip=TRUE,
hover_width=1
)
```
In the example above the `set_bscui_options()` function is used to hide the
menu and to disable view changes (zoom and pan). Other options can be changed
with this function.
### Save and export widget
The `htmlwidgets::saveWidget()` function can be used to save the figure in
an interactive html file.
```{r, eval=FALSE}
bscui(svg) |>
htmlwidgets::saveWidget(file = "figure.html")
```
And the `export_bscui_to_image()` is used to export the figure as an image.
```{r, eval=FALSE}
bscui(svg) |>
set_bscui_options(show_menu=FALSE) |>
export_bscui_to_image(file = "figure.png", zoom=6)
```
This function relies on the '[webshot2](https://rstudio.github.io/webshot2/)'
package and requires the Chrome browser or other browsers based on Chromium,
such as Chromium itself, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera
or [Thorium](https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/).
The following code chunk shows how to rely on Microsoft Edge.
```{r, eval=FALSE}
Sys.setenv(
"CHROMOTE_CHROME" = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe"
)
```
## Mapping data: Wikipathways
The following example demonstrates how to use 'bscui' to map numeric data
with colors on the figure. In this example, gene expression data are used
to color elements of the [Principal pathways of
carbon metabolism](https://www.wikipathways.org/pathways/WP112.html) taken
from [WikiPathways](https://www.wikipathways.org/).
```{r}
svg <- xml2::read_xml(system.file(
"examples", "WP112.svg.gz",
package="bscui"
))
info <- read_tsv(system.file(
"examples", "WP112.txt.gz",
package="bscui"
), col_types="c")
```
Gene expression data were taken from a publication describing the effects of the
provided nitrogen sources on baker's yeast gene
expression ([Godard *et al.* 2007](https://doi.org/10.1128/MCB.01084-06)).
The supplementary Table S1 provides a list of genes displaying significant
variations in expression under at least one tested nitrogen condition compared to urea.
```{r}
deg <- read_tsv(system.file(
"examples", "DEG-by-nitrogen-source_MCB-Godard-2007.txt.gz",
package="bscui"
), col_types=paste0(strrep("c", 3), strrep("n", 41)))
```
Below, we focus on the ALANINE condition and extract the M value
comparing the expression of genes when this amino-acid is used as the nitrogen
source instead of urea in yeast culture:
$M = log_2\left(Expression\,on\,alanine \over Expression\,on\,urea\right)$
```{r}
condition <- "ALANINE"
toTake <- c("ORF", paste(condition, "M"))
cond_deg <- deg |>
select(all_of(toTake)) |>
setNames(c("ensembl", "M")) |>
filter(!is.na(M))
```
We define a color scale on M values and define the style of the SVG elements
accordingly.
```{r}
col_scale <- col_numeric(
"RdYlBu", domain=range(cond_deg$M), reverse=TRUE
)
styles <- cond_deg |>
mutate(
fill=col_scale(M)
) |>
inner_join(select(info,id, ensembl), by="ensembl") |>
select(id, fill)
```
Finally, we create tooltips on SVG elements showing the type of biological
object and the M value when available.
```{r}
elements <- info |>
mutate(
ui_type="selectable",
bg = case_when(
category == "GeneProduct" ~ "#FDFDBD",
category == "Metabolite" ~ "#BDFDFD",
TRUE ~ "white"
)
) |>
left_join(cond_deg, by="ensembl") |>
mutate(
de = ifelse(
!is.na(M),
glue("log2({condition}/UREA) = {round(M,2)} "),
""
)
) |>
mutate(
title = glue(
'
'
)
) |>
select(id, ui_type, title)
```
And we use this information to create the figure.
```{r}
bscui(svg) |>
set_bscui_ui_elements(elements) |>
set_bscui_styles(styles)
```
# 'shiny' applications
The following example is used to describe the capabilities of 'bscui' within
'shiny'. It relies on the human female anatomical diagram taken from
the [EBI gene expression
group](https://github.com/ebi-gene-expression-group/anatomogram).
```{r, eval=FALSE}
shiny::runApp(system.file("examples", "shiny-anatomogram", package = "bscui"))
```
![Anatomogram 'shiny' app.](shiny-anatomogram.png)
The application is divided in four main parts:
- **(P1)** On the left: the anatomical diagram
- On the bottom right:
- **(P2)** text outputs showing the input values that are updated
when interacting with the diagram
- **(P3)** interfaces to modify the anatomical diagram and export it in R session
- **(P4)** On the top right: a table to choose the organs and configure
the interactions
## Building and inserting the figure (P1)
Building the figure and inserting it in 'shiny' user interface is
straightforward and relies on the `bscuiOutput()` and `renderBscui()` functions:
```{r, eval=FALSE}
ui <- fluidPage(
bscuiOutput("anatomogram")
)
server <- function(input, output, session){
output$anatomogram <- renderBscui({
bscui(svg)|>
set_bscui_ui_elements(ui_elements)
})
}
```
UI elements need to be defined with `set_bscui_ui_elements()` to make the
figure interactive and to allow 'shiny' interactions.
## Interactions (P2)
The following information are exposed to 'shiny' from the 'bscui' widget:
- `input$bscuiID_selected` reports selected elements
- `input$bscuiID_operated` reports operated button elements
- `input$bscuiID_hovered` reports hovered elements
`bscuiID` is used to refer to the figure output id, "anatomogram" in
the example above.
## Modifying the figure (P3)
Creating a "bscui_Proxy" object allows figure modification without redrawing it.
It's done by calling the `bscuiProxy()` within the sever function:
```{r, eval=FALSE}
server <- function(input, output, session){
output$anatomogram <- renderBscui({
bscui(svg)|>
set_bscui_ui_elements(ui_elements)
})
anatomogram_proxy <- bscuiProxy("anatomogram")
}
```
The following functions can then be used to modify the figure:
- `order_bscui_elements()` changes the display order of chosen elements
- `add_bscui_element()` adds an element to the figure
- `remove_bscui_elements()` removes chosen elements from the figure
Finally, the `get_bscui_svg()` function makes the updated figure SVG available
via `input$bscuiID_svg` (`input$anatomogram_svg` in the example).
## Updating figure elements (P4)
The example above relies on the '[reactable](https://glin.github.io/reactable/)'
and '[reactable.extras](https://appsilon.github.io/reactable.extras/)' packages
to display available elements (organs) and change their properties.
The following functions are applied to
a "bscui_Proxy" (`anatomogram_proxy` in the example above).
- `update_bscui_ui_elements()` changes the type and the title of elements. It
is used in the example above to select the type ("selectable", "button"
or "none") of each element from the "UI" column.
- `update_bscui_attributes()` sets attributes of SVG elements. It is used
in the example above to display or hide the different organs from
the "Displayed" column.
- `update_bscui_styles()` sets styles of SVG elements. It is used in the
example above to modify the color of the organs from the "Color" column.
- `update_bscui_selection()` updates the list of selected elements. In the
example, it is used to select organs from the "Selection" column of
the table (organs can therefore be selected either from the table or directly
from the diagram).
- `click_bscui_element()` triggers a click on a "button" element. It is not
used in the example.
# Additional notes
The functions of the 'bscui' package do their best to handle and modify SVG
elements as accurately as possible. However, depending on the structure of
the SVG it can be more or less successful. Simple and unnested structures should
be preferred when building SVG specifically for this use.
However, the aim of the 'bscui' package is also to leverage SVG from existing
sources as shown in all the examples described here.
The vignette [Preparing SVG: examples, tips
and tricks](https://patzaw.github.io/bscui/articles/web_only/SVG-examples.html)
describes how the SVG used in 'bscui' package examples were prepared. This
experience can be used when preparing SVG from new sources.