create.heatmap: Create a heatmap.

In rdeborja/plotting.general: Plotting functions using ggplot2.

Description

Create a heatmap from data within a data frame.

Usage

create.heatmap(data, x, y, fill = NULL, xlab = NULL, ylab = NULL, filename = NULL, resolution = NULL, base.size = 20, theme = NULL, colour.scheme = NULL)

Arguments

data	data frame containing the data to plot
x	the dataframe column name containing the data to plot on the x-axis
y	the dataframe column name containing the data to plot on the y-axis
fill	column to use for the heatmap colours
xlab	label for the x-axis
ylab	label for the y-axis
filename	filename containing plot
resolution	resolution of the plot
base.size	base size for fonts on the heatmap, this is used by default.heatmap.theme (default: 20)
theme	theme for the plot
colour.scheme	A vector of two colours to use for the colourkey in the legend

Value

Returns the ggplot2 object if no filename is passed, otherwise returns the exit code for the creation of the plot.

Author(s)

Richard de Borja <[e-mail]>

See Also

write.plot

Examples

  # create a simple heatmap
  mtcars$car <- rownames(mtcars)
  create.heatmap(
    data = mtcars,
    x = 'car',
    y = 'cyl',
    xlab = '',
    ylab = 'Number of Cylinders'
    )

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