flowWorkspace (version 3.16.0)

getParent,GatingSet,character-method: Return the name of the parent population or a list of child populations of the current population in the GatingHierarchy

Description

Returns the name of the parent population or a character/numeric vector of all the children of the current population in the given GatingHierarchy

Usage

"getParent"(obj, y, ...)
"getChildren"(obj, y, showHidden = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

obj

A GatingHierarchy

y

a character/numeric the name or full(/partial) gating path or node indices of the node / population.

...

other arguments passed to getNodes methods

showHidden

logical whether to include the hidden children nodes.

Value

getParent returns a character vector, the name of the parent population. getChildren returns a character or numeric vector of the node names or node indices of the child nodes of the current node. An empty vector if the node has no children.

See Also

getNodes

Examples

## Not run: 
#     #G is a gatinghierarchy
#     #return the name of the parent of the fifth node in the hierarchy.
#     getParent(G,getNodes(G[[1)[5])
#     n<-getNodes(G,tsort=T)[4];
#     getChildren(G,n);#Get the names of the child nodes of the 4th node in this gating hierarchy.
#     getChildren(G,4);#Get the ids of the child nodes
#   ## End(Not run)