use pillar to add aesthetics to the columns of the tibble interface of tidySCE, tidyseurat, tidySE

[stemangiola]

Start with the package tidySingleCellExperiment

In tidyomics, we represent data bioconductor data containers as tibbles; some of the columns are taken from sample/gene metadata, and some of the columns of our tidyomics data representation are virtual, view-only columns".

You can use "view-only" columns to filter and create new columns, but view-only" columns cannot be edited or deleted from the representation.

It would be nice to use the package pillar to add aesthetics to the column names of those few "view-only" columns; for example, add red colouring to the view-only columns (i.e. PC, UMAP; selected in the get_special_datasets function).

Some examples of editing the tibble style are given here

• https://pillar.r-lib.org/articles/extending.html#tweak-pillar-composition
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68489214/how-to-print-a-r-dataframe-with-colors

[multimeric]

So this applies to exactly 3 classes? tidySCE, tidyseurat, and tidySE? I think the pillar docs make this process pretty clear.

[stemangiola]

So this applies to exactly 3 classes? tidySCE, tidyseurat, and tidySE? I think the pillar docs make this process pretty clear.

For the moment only tidySingleCellExperiment

Eventually, this would apply to all tidyomics, including SingleCellExperiment, Seurat, SummarizedExperiment, SpatialExperiment and so on. Possibly as print methods shared in the mother repo ttservice.