T-bars for gene regulatory network

Hello,

I'm trying to use ggraph to build gene regulatory network.

Arrows are great to show activation of genes expression however for inactivation I was wondering if there is a way to plot T-bars (I couldn't find if it was an available asset) ? Right now I am using lines of different color than arrows (which does the job).

thank you for this nice library !

Paul

Can you provide an example of what you're looking for?

@teunbrand

@teunbrand This gene regulatory network, for example, uses T-bars to show negative effect (it would be the inactivation of genes in my case.)

So just arrows where the 'legs' are at an 90° angle?

library(ggraph)
#> Loading required package: ggplot2

ggraph(head(highschool, 50)) +
  geom_edge_link(
    end_cap = circle(3, "mm"), 
    arrow = arrow(angle = 90, length = unit(2, "mm"))
  ) +
  geom_node_point()
#> Using "stress" as default layout

^{Created on 2025-09-29 with reprex v2.1.1}

I'm assuming the above is a sufficient solution and if not, this issue constitutes a particular case of #369.

Thank you very much !

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