variable.by.factor: ggplot2 violin plot

In MRCIEU/MetaboQC: Metabolomics data preparation and processing pipeline

ggplot2 violin plot

Description

This function performs univariate linear analysis of a dependent and an independent variable and generates a viloin or box plot to illustrate the associated structure.

Usage

variable.by.factor(
  dep,
  indep,
  dep_name = "dependent",
  indep_name = "independent",
  orderfactor = TRUE,
  violin = TRUE
)

Arguments

dep	a vector of the dependent variable
indep	a vector of the independent variable
dep_name	name of the dependent variable
indep_name	name of the independent variable
orderfactor	order factors alphebetically
violin	box plot or violin plot. violin = TRUE is default

Value

a ggplot2 object

Examples

x = c( rnorm(20, 10, 2), rnorm(20, 20, 2) )
y = as.factor( c( rep("A", 20), rep("B", 20)  ) )
variable.by.factor(dep = x , indep = y, dep_name = "expression", indep_name = "species" )

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