Warning in ft_topoplotER

Wed Jan 20 13:51:04 CET 2010

Dear Roemer,

thanks a lot for your help and the time you are taking to assist me! Your
remarks have been really helpful.

The warning is from topoplotER, which I call indirectly through
ft_clusterplot. Thanks for pointing out that I am not to use the options
directly. I saw some options in the help of ft_clusterplot together with the
hint that more options were to be found in topoplotER.

Since I keep having trouble with uploading files to your server, I attach a
test MATLAB file (stripped down to the basics) and my data. I hope that is
okay, it is really quite a small amount of data. Otherwise, I would try my
private Ubuntu computer.

The warning is

Warning: cfg.highlight is now used for specifing highlighting-mode, use
cfg.highlightchannel instead of cfg.highlight for specifiying channels

> In ft_topoplotER at 214

  In topoplotER at 17

  In ft_clusterplot at 277

  In test_clusterplot at 5

Thanks a lot!

Best regards

Andrea

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From: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] On Behalf
Of Roemer van der Meij
Sent: Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 12:52
To: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL
Subject: Re: [FIELDTRIP] Thanks / warning in ft_topoplotER

Hi Andrea,

Always happy to help. And thank you for helping us squashing bugs!

Are you sure you are using the most recent fieldtrip version? There was a
bug several weeks ago that gave the warning (which used to be on line 214,
but is now on line 215) even when cfg.highlight was not numerical. (if it's
numerical, it is assumed cfg.highlight is used in the old way). If you have
a version that is newer than 19-12-2009 (date of previous bug fix), could
you post the exact code you use to call ft_topoplotER? This could give me a
better idea on where in the code the problem lies. Could you then also post
the exact warning matlab spits out? (if it's not a version problem,
something complicated is going on and all information is helpful). Thanks!

Concerning ft_clusterplot, you're not actually supposed to use the
highlighting options directly. As clusterplot tries to determine the
clustering automatically, this could possibly interfere with it's normal
functioning. Thanks for pointing this out. I now added a check for these
'forbidden' options and they will be removed automatically. The updated
clusterplot will be uploaded to the ftp-server somewhere late in the evening
today.

However, if you want to manage you're own clustering directly, you can also
do this using topoplotER/TFR. It might be a bit difficult, but you have to
put all the highlighting options in its own cell (including the ones that
were already in cells). There is 'hidden' documentation about this in
topoplotER (you won't see it with the help/doc command, but you will if you
edit the function), you can find it just below the normal documentation.
I copy-pasted it here for easy reference:
***********
% It is possible to use multiple highlight-selections (e.g.: multiple
statistical clusters of channels)
% To do this, all the content of the highlight-options (including
cfg.highlight) should be placed in a cell-array
% (even if the normal content was already in a cell-array). Specific marker
settings (e.g. color, size) are defaulted when
% not present.
% Example (3 selections):
% cfg.highlight               = {'labels', 'labels', 'numbers'}
% cfg.highlightchannel    = {{'MZF03','MZC01','MRT54'}, [1:5], 'C*'}
% cfg.highlightsymbol    = {'o',[],'+'}          % the empty option will be
defaulted
% cfg.highlightcolor       = {'r',[0 0 1]};      % the missing option will
be defaulted
% cfg.highlightsize         = [];                      % will be set to
default, as will the missing cfg.highlightfontsize
***********

Using these options you should be able to get the same individual plots
clusterplot can give you. If you do not want to see the other channels, set
cfg.marker = 'off';. On the use of the different routines, topoplotTFR is
identical to topoplotER, but is just present because of our present
naming-scheme. Clusterplot however, is a wrapper around topoplotER/TFR
designed to quickly and without much configuring plot your statistical
clusters (which requires statistics output as input). By using the 'hidden'
options above, you can make topoplotER/TFR do exactly the same as
clusterplot, but then you can specify your own clusters.

We are currently looking into your question number 3, as it appears things
go a little deeper there. There are at least some situations where
cfg.neighbours = [] apparently doesn't work, but we are still figuring out
why. For the moment, a really ugly and time consuming workaround would be to
make a for-loop over single channels, but it would prevent the clustering
over channels and should provide (per channel) the exact same output as
cfg.neighbours = [];

I hope all of the above helps. Thanks for bringing these bugs to our
attention!

Kind regards,

Roemer

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