plotControlHisto: Plot a histogram of the data values and controls

In RNAither: Statistical analysis of high-throughput RNAi screens

Description

Plots and saves a histogram of data values and shows the controls, if available, in color.

Usage

plotControlHisto(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 name of the column containing the values to be plotted, e.g. "SigIntensity"
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

Saves the histogram in a pdf and a png file named after the experiment name specified in the header concatenated with the plotTitle.

Positive controls are plotted in green, negative controls in red.

The funtion returns the plot name.

See Also

plotControlHistoPerplate, plotControlHistoPerscreen

Examples

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

plotControlHisto(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "Distribution of Data and Controls", 1)

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