kpAxis: kpAxis
In karyoploteR: Plot customizable linear genomes displaying arbitrary data

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

Plot axis at the sides of the data panels

kpAxis(karyoplot, ymin=NULL, ymax=NULL, r0=NULL, r1=NULL, side=1, numticks=3, labels=NULL, tick.pos=NULL, tick.len=NULL, label.margin=NULL, data.panel=1, text.col="black", col="black", chromosomes="auto", ...)

`karyoplot`	(a `KaryoPlot` object) This is the first argument to all data plotting functions of `karyoploteR`. A KaryoPlot object referring to the currently active plot.
`ymin`	(numeric) The minimum value of `y` to be plotted. If NULL, it is set to the min value of the selected data panel. (defaults to NULL)
`ymax`	(numeric) The maximum value of `y` to be plotted. If NULL, it is set to the max value of the selected data panel. (defaults to NULL)
`r0`	(numeric) r0 and r1 define the vertical range of the data panel to be used to draw this plot. They can be used to split the data panel in different vertical ranges (similar to tracks in a genome browser) to plot differents data. If NULL, they are set to the min and max of the data panel, it is, to use all the available space. (defaults to NULL)
`r1`	(numeric) r0 and r1 define the vertical range of the data panel to be used to draw this plot. They can be used to split the data panel in different vertical ranges (similar to tracks in a genome browser) to plot differents data. If NULL, they are set to the min and max of the data panel, it is, to use all the available space. (defaults to NULL)
`side`	(numeric) In which side of the data panel should the axis be plotted. 1 - plot it on the right of the data panel. 2 - Plot it on the left. (defualts to 1)
`numticks`	(numeric) the number of ticks (and labels) of the axis. If `tick.pos` is present, it takes precedence over `num.ticks` and `num.ticks` is ignored. (defaults to 3)
`labels`	(character) the labels to be placed next to the ticks. If the number of labels is lower than the number of tickes, the labels will be reused. If NULL, the numeric values of the ticks will be used. (defaults to NULL)
`tick.pos`	(numeric) the places in the axis where a tick should be drawn. If present, `num.ticks` is ignored. If NULL, ticks are placed equidistant. (defaults to NULL)
`tick.len`	(numeric) the length of the ticks to be drawn measured in base pairs. If NULL, tick length is 0.01 times the length in bases of the longest chromosome. (defaults to NULL)
`label.margin`	(numeric) the additional the margin between the labels and ticks. Can be negative. If NULL, the default margin is used. (defaults to NULL)
`data.panel`	(numeric) The identifier of the data panel where the data is to be plotted. The available data panels depend on the plot type selected in the call to `plotKaryotype`. (defaults to 1)
`text.col`	(color) The color of the text elements (defaults to "black")
`col`	(color) The color of the axis lines (defaults to "black")
`chromosomes`	(character) To which chromosomes should we add the axis: "first", "last", "auto", "all" or a vector of chromosome names. With auto, the chromosomes will depend on the plot type and side of axis plotting. (defaults to "auto")
`...`	The ellipsis operator can be used to specify any additional graphical parameters. Any additional parameter will be passed to the internal calls to the R base plotting functions.

kpAxis plots axis at the sides of the data panels. It is possible to control the number of ticks and their labels, the placement of the plots and whether they span the whole data panel or just part of it. To do that they use the same placement parameters used by other karyoploteR functions (r0 and r1). This function does not have a chr option: axis are always plotted for all chromosomes.

Returns the original karyoplot object, unchanged.

plotKaryotype, kpDataBackground, kpAbline

kp <- plotKaryotype("hg19", plot.type=2, chromosomes=c("chr1", "chr2"))

#Prepare data panel 1
kpDataBackground(kp, data.panel=1)
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 1)
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 1, ymin = 0, ymax=10, numticks = 11, side = 2, cex = 0.4, col="red")

#Prepare data panel 2
#Data panel 2 is conceptually split into two parts and the second part is "inverted"
kpDataBackground(kp, data.panel=2, r0 = 0, r1 = 0.45, color = "#EEEEFF")
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 2, r0=0, r1=0.45, ymin = 0, ymax = 1, cex=0.5, 
           tick.pos = c(0.3, 0.5, 0.7), labels = c("-1 sd", "mean", "+1 sd"))
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 2, r0=0, r1=0.45, ymin = 0, ymax = 1, cex=0.5, side=2)

kpDataBackground(kp, data.panel=2, r0 = 0.55, r1 = 1, color = "#EEFFEE")
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 2, r0=1, r1=0.55, ymin = 0, ymax = 1, side=1, cex=0.5)
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 2, r0=1, r1=0.55, ymin = 0, ymax = 1, side=2, cex=0.5)


#Customizing the axis appearance
pp <- getDefaultPlotParams(plot.type=4)
pp$leftmargin <- 0.2
pp$rightmargin <- 0.2
kp <- plotKaryotype("hg19", plot.type=4, chromosomes=c("chr1", "chr2"), plot.params=pp)

#Prepare data panel 1
kpDataBackground(kp, data.panel=1)
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 1, text.col="red", cex=1.6, srt=45)
kpAxis(kp, data.panel = 1, ymin = 0, ymax=10, numticks = 11, side = 2, 
       cex = 0.7, col="red", text.col="gold", tick.len=30e6, )