flow_breaks: Generate the breaks that makes sense for flow data...

In RGLab/flowWorkspace: Infrastructure for representing and interacting with gated and ungated cytometry data sets.

Generate the breaks that makes sense for flow data visualization

Description

It is mainly used as helper function to construct breaks function used by 'trans_new'.

Usage

flow_breaks(x, n = 6, equal.space = FALSE, trans.fun, inverse.fun)

Arguments

x	the raw data values
n	desired number of breaks (the actual number will be different depending on the data range)
equal.space	whether breaks at equal-spaced intervals
trans.fun	the transform function (only needed when equal.space is TRUE)
inverse.fun	the inverse function (only needed when equal.space is TRUE)

Value

either 10^n intervals or equal-spaced(after transformed) intervals in raw scale.

Examples

library(flowCore)
data(GvHD)
fr <- GvHD[[1]]
data.raw <- exprs(fr)[, "FL1-H"]
flow_breaks(data.raw)

trans <- logicleTransform()
inv <- inverseLogicleTransform(trans = trans)
myBrks <- flow_breaks(data.raw, equal.space = TRUE, trans = trans, inv = inv)
round(myBrks)
#to verify it is equally spaced at transformed scale
print(trans(myBrks))

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