--- title: "Automatic model diagrams" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Automatic model diagrams} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 7, fig.height = 4.5 ) hasDiagrammeR <- requireNamespace("DiagrammeR", quietly = TRUE) ``` A compartment diagram is often the fastest way to explain a model in a report or to check that the equations say what you meant. `nlmixr2plot` can draw one directly from a model's differential equations: - `modelGraph()` parses the equations into a graph of compartments and flows. - `modelDiagram()` lays that graph out following common pharmacometric conventions and draws it. ```{r setup} library(nlmixr2plot) ``` ## A first diagram Any model function, `rxode2` model, `rxode2` user interface object or fitted `nlmixr2` object can be diagrammed. Here is a two-compartment model with first-order absorption: ```{r} two.cmt <- function() { ini({ tka <- log(1.5) tcl <- log(3) tv <- log(20) tq <- log(2) tvp <- log(40) add.sd <- 0.2 }) model({ ka <- exp(tka) cl <- exp(tcl) v <- exp(tv) q <- exp(tq) vp <- exp(tvp) d/dt(depot) <- -ka * depot d/dt(central) <- ka * depot - cl / v * central - q / v * central + q / vp * periph d/dt(periph) <- q / v * central - q / vp * periph cp <- central / v cp ~ add(add.sd) }) } ``` ```{r} modelDiagram(two.cmt, engine = "ggplot2") ``` `plot()` of any `rxode2` user interface object (or compiled `rxode2` model) draws the same diagram, so this is equivalent: ```{r, eval = FALSE} plot(rxode2::rxode2(two.cmt), engine = "ggplot2") ``` The dosing compartment (`depot`, drawn with a heavy border) is on top and feeds the central compartment. The peripheral compartment, which exchanges mass with `central` in both directions, is to the left, and elimination leaves the central compartment downwards. ## Drawing engines The same graph can be drawn several ways, chosen with `engine`: - `"DiagrammeR"` draws an interactive Graphviz widget with the 'DiagrammeR' package. This is the default when 'DiagrammeR' is installed. - `"ggplot2"` returns a `ggplot` object that can be themed, saved with `ggplot2::ggsave()` or combined with other plots. It needs no extra packages. - `"dot"` returns the Graphviz DOT source as a string, to edit or to render with any Graphviz tool. ```{r, eval = hasDiagrammeR} modelDiagram(two.cmt, engine = "DiagrammeR") ``` ```{r} cat(modelDiagram(two.cmt, engine = "dot")) ``` The default engine can be set once per session: ```{r, eval = FALSE} options(nlmixr2plot.diagram.engine = "ggplot2") ``` Arrows can be labeled with the model terms that drive them: ```{r} modelDiagram(two.cmt, engine = "ggplot2", labels = TRUE) ``` ## The graph behind the diagram `modelGraph()` returns the parsed graph, which is useful for checking how the equations were interpreted (or for drawing it some other way): ```{r} g <- modelGraph(two.cmt) g ``` The `nodes` data frame gives each compartment's role and layout position, and the `edges` data frame lists every flow. A graph can be passed straight to `modelDiagram()` or `plot()`: ```{r, eval = FALSE} plot(g, engine = "ggplot2") ``` ### How the equations are read Each `d/dt()` equation is split into signed additive terms (products are distributed over sums), and then: - **Mass transfer**: a term subtracted from one compartment and added, identically, to another moves mass between them. The order of factors does not matter (`ka*depot` matches `depot*ka`), and first-order, zero-order and enzyme-driven rates are all recognized. - **Elimination**: a remaining loss that contains the compartment's own amount (like `cl/v*central` or Michaelis-Menten `vmax*C/(km + C)`), or that depends on no compartment at all (a zero-order loss). - **Input**: a remaining gain that depends on no other compartment: a zero-order `kin`, or self-dependent growth like `kg*A` in `d/dt(A)`. - **Interaction**: a term that depends on another compartment without moving mass, like an effect compartment or a pharmacodynamic stimulation or inhibition. It is drawn dashed. Its direction comes from the equation: inhibition when the term decreases as the driving compartment increases (including `1 - emax*C/(ec50 + C)`, `kin/(1 + C)` and `exp(-k*C)` forms), stimulation when it increases, and "modulation" when the direction cannot be determined. Intermediate variables (like `cp <- central/v`) are followed, `if`/`else` blocks and `ifelse()` keep their conditions, and residual error lines are ignored. ## Pharmacodynamic models Compartments that interact with the pharmacokinetic model without mass transfer go to the right, with their own inputs above and outputs below. Here is an indirect response (turnover) model where the drug inhibits the production of the response: ```{r} pk.turnover <- function() { ini({ tktr <- log(1) tka <- log(1) tcl <- log(0.1) tv <- log(10) poplogit <- 2 tec50 <- log(0.5) tkout <- log(0.05) te0 <- log(100) prop.err <- 0.1 pdadd.err <- 10 }) model({ ktr <- exp(tktr) ka <- exp(tka) cl <- exp(tcl) v <- exp(tv) emax <- expit(poplogit) ec50 <- exp(tec50) kout <- exp(tkout) e0 <- exp(te0) DCP <- center / v PD <- 1 - emax * DCP / (ec50 + DCP) effect(0) <- e0 kin <- e0 * kout d/dt(depot) <- -ktr * depot d/dt(gut) <- ktr * depot - ka * gut d/dt(center) <- ka * gut - cl / v * center d/dt(effect) <- kin * PD - kout * effect cp <- center / v cp ~ prop(prop.err) effect ~ add(pdadd.err) }) } modelDiagram(pk.turnover, engine = "ggplot2") ``` The transit compartment `gut` stacks between the dosing compartment and the central compartment. The response has a zero-order input (`kin`) above it, an elimination below it, and a dotted arrow from `center`: the drug *inhibits* the response, because `PD` decreases as the concentration increases. With 'DiagrammeR' the inhibition is drawn with a "tee" arrow head: ```{r, eval = hasDiagrammeR} modelDiagram(pk.turnover, engine = "DiagrammeR") ``` A more involved example, with a metabolite, two peripheral compartments, an effect compartment and a response driven by the effect compartment: ```{r} pkpd <- rxode2::rxode2({ C2 <- centr / V2 C3 <- peri / V3 C4 <- peri2 / V4 d/dt(depot) <- -KA * depot d/dt(centr) <- KA * depot - CL * C2 - Q * C2 + Q * C3 - Q2 * C2 + Q2 * C4 - kmet * centr d/dt(peri) <- Q * C2 - Q * C3 d/dt(peri2) <- Q2 * C2 - Q2 * C4 d/dt(met) <- kmet * centr - kelm * met d/dt(ce) <- ke0 * (C2 - ce) d/dt(resp) <- kin - kout * (1 - ce / (ec50 + ce)) * resp }) modelDiagram(pkpd, engine = "ggplot2") ``` ## Target-mediated drug disposition Binding and unbinding are recognized as mass transfer from both binding partners into the complex (and back): ```{r} tmdd <- rxode2::rxode2({ d/dt(central) <- -kel * central - kon * central * target + koff * complex d/dt(target) <- ksyn - kdeg * target - kon * central * target + koff * complex d/dt(complex) <- kon * central * target - koff * complex - kint * complex }) modelGraph(tmdd, dosing = "central") modelDiagram(tmdd, dosing = "central", engine = "ggplot2") ``` ## Dosing compartments Dosing compartments are detected from the dosing records of the data: for a fitted model this is the data it was fit to, and for other models it can be supplied with `data`. Both numeric and named `cmt` values are understood: ```{r} d <- data.frame( id = 1, time = c(0, 0, 1, 2), amt = c(100, 50, 0, 0), evid = c(1, 1, 0, 0), cmt = c("depot", "central", "central", "central"), dv = 0 ) modelGraph(two.cmt, data = d)$nodes ``` With no data, the first compartment (`rxode2`'s default dosing compartment) is assumed. The dosing compartments can also be given directly: ```{r} modelDiagram(two.cmt, dosing = "central", engine = "ggplot2") ``` For a fit, `modelDiagram(fit)` uses the fitted model and data: ```{r, eval = FALSE} fit <- nlmixr2(two.cmt, nlmixr2data::theo_sd, est = "focei") modelDiagram(fit) ``` ## Dosing properties and delays Dosing properties set in the model (`lag()`/`alag()`, `f()`/`F()`, `rate()` and `dur()`) do not change the flows, so they are shown as an annotation next to their compartment (compartments without them are left blank). Initial conditions like `central(0) <- 0` do not change the diagram. ```{r} pk.lag <- rxode2::rxode2({ d/dt(depot) <- -ka * depot alag(depot) <- tlag f(depot) <- fbio d/dt(central) <- ka * depot - cl / v * central dur(central) <- d1 }) modelGraph(pk.lag) modelDiagram(pk.lag, engine = "ggplot2") ``` A `delay()` keeps the meaning of what it delays: `ka*delay(depot, tlag)` in the destination still matches `-ka*depot` in the source (a delayed transfer), and a delayed concentration driving an effect keeps the direction of the concentration. ## `linCmt()` models Models written with `linCmt()` are converted to their ODE form with `rxode2::linToOde()` before they are diagrammed (this requires a version of 'rxode2' that provides it): ```{r, eval = "linToOde" %in% getNamespaceExports("rxode2")} one.cmt <- function() { ini({ tka <- 0.45 tcl <- 1 tv <- 3.45 add.sd <- 0.7 }) model({ ka <- exp(tka) cl <- exp(tcl) v <- exp(tv) linCmt() ~ add(add.sd) }) } modelDiagram(one.cmt, engine = "ggplot2") ``` ## Limitations The diagram is only as good as the parsing of the equations, so a few conventions matter: - Mass transfer is only detected when the same term is subtracted from the source and added to the destination. A transfer scaled in only one of the equations (for example a volume or stoichiometric conversion) is drawn as an elimination plus an interaction. - A gain driven only by another compartment (like `ke0*cp` into an effect compartment) is represented by the dashed interaction arrow alone. - The layout is automatic; for publication-quality tweaks, start from the DOT source (`engine = "dot"`) or the `ggplot` object and adjust it.