Extremely wide trees

[BenRickard16]

Me and a mate have been playing around with plotting the trees for different mathematicians and it has been great! However, certain mathematicians e.g. Heisenberg have around 1000 connections, and the tree becomes too big, and we are unable to zoom in close enough to see the names of the connections. I think in particular the issue is the tree becomes extremely wide with hundreds of very recent connections. Besides this we have thoroughly enjoyed looking at the connections to our diss supervisors :)

p.s. sorry if this isn't correctly done, I'm not a GitHub expert

[louisaslett]

Thanks for the bug report Ben, glad you've enjoyed playing round with the package! 😃

And no worries, this was a good first bug report: your description is really clear thanks. For future reference, the only extra thing that's usually helpful in a bug report is to provide a small code snippet which reproduces the problem alongside the description. This enables the developer to see the issue as you're seeing it, avoids any misunderstanding in describing the problem, and makes things a little quicker to debug.

Anyhow, I don't actually need it in this case, your mention of Heisenberg as an example was enough, so I've been able to replicate the problem ... I see what you mean!! Seriously wide ↔️! I had overridden the usual maximum zoom level in the viewer, but clearly not high enough, so I've ramped that default up more and added an argument max_zoom for the plot_grviz() function so that if you encounter an even wider tree it can be even further ramped up. Set this to a value larger than the new default of 200 and you'll be able to zoom more.

Will push that fix now and it'll get rebuilt on R-universe soon, so you can re-run install.packages to fetch v0.1.1 with the fix.

Thanks again for the report, and best of luck with your dissertation work! 🍀