makeBoxplotControls: Generate a boxplot of the data vs. the controls

In RNAither: Statistical analysis of high-throughput RNAi screens

Description

Generates a boxplot of intensity values of negative controls, positive controls and experimental data.

Usage

makeBoxplotControls(header, dataset, channel, plotTitle, showPlot)

Arguments

header	the header of a dataset file generated with generateDatasetFile
dataset	an R data frame generated with generateDatasetFile
channel	a character string specifying the column whose values will be used for the boxplot
plotTitle	the plot title
showPlot	0 or 1. 1 will open one or several plot windows in the R GUI, 0 will only save the plot(s) without opening windows.

Value

A boxplot of intensity values of negative controls, positive controls and experimental data will be saved as a pdf and a png file named after the experiment name specified in the header concatenated with the plotTitle.

The function returns the plot name.

See Also

makeBoxplotControlsPerScreen, makeBoxplotControlsPerPlate, makeBoxplotPerPlate, makeBoxplotPerScreen

Examples

data(exampleHeader, package="RNAither")
data(exampleDataset, package="RNAither")

makeBoxplotControls(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "Data vs. Controls", 1)

RNAither documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 8:06 p.m.