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how to modify some tiplabs in ggtree?

Hi there,

I am creating a tree with ggtree and the only thing I am not able to do is to modify some tiplabs (only some! ) in the tree. This is my command:

tree = read.tree(text = "XXXXX;")

p <- ggtree(tree)

## create a data frame that contains the taxa name and the country:
dd <- data.frame(taxa  = c("y","z","d"), 
                 Location = c(rep("here", 2), rep("there", 1)))
row.names(dd) <- NULL
print(dd)

### do the tree (use dev.off())
p <- p %<+% dd + geom_tippoint(aes(color=Location),size=6)
p+theme(legend.position="right")+
  scale_color_brewer("Location", palette="Dark2")+
  geom_tiplab(size=3.5,hjust =-0.1)+
  xlim(NA, 0.15)

I have read that with "geom_tiplab" is posible to change the style of the text but for the whole tree and I don't want that.

Any idea?

Thank you so much

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updated by andrespara • andrespara • written by luzglongoria • luzglongoria

Were you able to figure this out? I'm looking for an answer to this as well, but to change hjust position for a subset of taxa/tip labels. Please let me know if you figured this out.

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written by molly77 • molly77

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This might help https://groups.google.com/g/bioc-ggtree/c/Ciy4Fh_7hl4

library(ape)
library(ggtree)

tree <- rcoal(5)
tree$tip.label <- c("REF-1","REF-2","S1","S2","S3")
full_tree    <- ggtree(tree) + xlim(0,2) + geom_tiplab()
full_tree
#Since we know the first two are reference, use the order
limited_tree1 <- ggtree(tree) + xlim(0,2) + geom_tiplab(aes(subset=(node %in% c(1,2))))
limited_tree1
#But we also know the names are different, so we can use that as well
#grepl() searches for 'RE' in the label, and returns true if found
#we use aes(subset=()) to only print those with the subset condition == TRUE
limited_tree2 <- ggtree(tree) + xlim(0,2) + geom_tiplab(aes(
      subset=(grepl('RE',label,fixed=TRUE)==TRUE)))
limited_tree2
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written by andrespara • andrespara

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