Citation

Mangiola et al., (2020). tidyHeatmap: an R package for modular heatmap production based on tidy principles. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(52), 2472, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02472

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website: stemangiola.github.io/tidyHeatmap

tidyHeatmap is a package that introduces tidy principles to the creation of information-rich heatmaps. This package uses ComplexHeatmap as graphical engine.

Advantages:

Functions/utilities available

Function | Description ------------ | ------------- heatmap | Plots base heatmap group_by | dplyr function - groups heatpmap rows/columns annotation_tile | Adds tile annotation to the heatmap annotation_point | Adds point annotation to the heatmap annotation_bar | Adds bar annotation to the heatmap annotation_line | Adds line annotation to the heatmap layer_text | Add layer of text on top of the heatmap layer_point | Adds layer of symbols on top of the heatmap layer_square | Adds layer of symbols on top of the heatmap layer_diamond | Adds layer of symbols on top of the heatmap layer_arrow_up | Adds layer of symbols on top of the heatmap layer_arrow_down | Add layer of symbols on top of the heatmap layer_star | Add layer of symbols on top of the heatmap layer_asterisk | Add layer of symbols on top of the heatmap split_rows | Splits the rows based on the dendogram split_columns | Splits the columns based on the dendogram save_pdf | Saves the PDF of the heatmap + | Integrate heatmaps side-by-side as_ComplexHeatmap | Convert the tidyHeatmap output to ComplexHeatmap for non-standard "drawing" wrap_heatmap | Allows the integration with the patchwork package

Installation

To install the most up-to-date version

devtools::install_github("stemangiola/tidyHeatmap")

To install the most stable version (however please keep in mind that this package is under a maturing lifecycle stage)

install.packages("tidyHeatmap")

Contribution

If you want to contribute to the software, report issues or problems with the software or seek support please open an issue here

Input data frame

The heatmaps visualise a multi-element, multi-feature dataset, annotated with independent variables. Each observation is a element-feature pair (e.g., person-physical characteristics).

element | feature | value | independent_variables ------------ | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- chr or fctr | chr or fctr | numeric | ...

Let's transform the mtcars dataset into a tidy "element-feature-independent variables" data frame. Where the independent variables in this case are 'hp' and 'vs'.

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(tidyHeatmap)
library(grid)
mtcars_tidy <- 
    mtcars |> 
    as_tibble(rownames="Car name") |> 

    # Scale
    mutate_at(vars(-`Car name`, -hp, -vs), scale) |>

    # tidyfy
    pivot_longer(cols = -c(`Car name`, hp, vs), names_to = "Property", values_to = "Value")

mtcars_tidy

Plotting

For plotting, you simply pipe the input data frame into heatmap, specifying:

mtcars

mtcars_heatmap <- 
    mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(`Car name`, Property, Value,    scale = "row"   ) |>
    annotation_tile(hp)

mtcars_heatmap

Saving

mtcars_heatmap |> save_pdf("mtcars_heatmap.pdf")

Clustering

Choose alternative clustering distance and methods.

tidyHeatmap::pasilla |>

    heatmap(
        .column = sample,
        .row = symbol,
        .value = `count normalised adjusted`,   
        scale = "row",

        # Arguments passed to ComplexHeatmap 
        clustering_distance_rows = "manhattan",
        clustering_distance_columns = "manhattan",
        clustering_method_rows = "ward.D",
        clustering_method_columns = "ward.D"
    ) 

Grouping and splitting

We can easily group the data (one group per dimension maximum, at the moment only the vertical dimension is supported) with dplyr, and the heatmap will be grouped accordingly

# Make up more groupings
mtcars_tidy_groupings = 
    mtcars_tidy |>
    mutate(property_group = if_else(Property %in% c("cyl", "disp"), "Engine", "Other"))

mtcars_tidy_groupings |> 
    group_by(vs, property_group) |>
    heatmap(`Car name`, Property, Value,    scale = "row"   ) |>
    annotation_tile(hp)

We can provide colour palettes to groupings

mtcars_tidy_groupings |> 
    group_by(vs, property_group) |>
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value ,   
        scale = "row",
        palette_grouping = list(

            # For first grouping (vs)
            c("#66C2A5", "#FC8D62"), 

            # For second grouping (property_group)
            c("#b58b4c", "#74a6aa")
        )
    ) |>
    annotation_tile(hp)

We can split based on the cladogram

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(`Car name`, Property, Value,    scale = "row"   ) |>
    split_rows(2) |>
    split_columns(2)

We can split on kmean clustering (using ComplexHeatmap options, it is stochastic)

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value,    
        scale = "row",
        row_km = 2,
        column_km = 2
    ) 

Custom palettes

We can easily use custom palette, using strings, hexadecimal color character vector,

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, 
        Property, 
        Value,  
        scale = "row",
        palette_value = c("red", "white", "blue")
    )

A better-looking blue-to-red palette

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, 
        Property, 
        Value,  
        scale = "row",
        palette_value = circlize::colorRamp2(
            seq(-2, 2, length.out = 11), 
            RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(11, "RdBu")
        )
    )

Or a grid::colorRamp2 function for higher flexibility

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, 
        Property, 
        Value,  
        scale = "row",
        palette_value = circlize::colorRamp2(c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2), viridis::magma(5))
    )

We can use custom colors for tile annotation

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, 
        Property, 
        Value,  
        scale = "row"
    ) |>
    add_tile(
        hp, 
        palette = c("red", "white", "blue")
    )

We can use grid::colorRamp2 function for tile annotation for specific color scales

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, 
        Property, 
        Value,  
        scale = "row"
    ) |>
    annotation_tile(
        hp, 
        palette = circlize::colorRamp2(c(0, 100, 200, 300), viridis::magma(4))
    )

Multiple groupings and annotations

tidyHeatmap::pasilla |>
    group_by(location, type) |>
    heatmap(
        .column = sample,
        .row = symbol,
        .value = `count normalised adjusted`,   
        scale = "row"
    ) |>
    annotation_tile(condition) |>
    annotation_tile(activation)

Remove legends, adding aesthetics to annotations in a modular fashion, using ComplexHeatmap arguments

tidyHeatmap::pasilla |>
    group_by(location, type) |>
    heatmap(
        .column = sample,
        .row = symbol,
        .value = `count normalised adjusted`,   
        scale = "row",
        show_heatmap_legend = FALSE
    ) |>
    annotation_tile(condition, show_legend = FALSE) |>
    annotation_tile(activation, show_legend = FALSE)

Annotation types

"tile", "point", "bar" and "line" are available

# Create some more data points
pasilla_plus <- 
    tidyHeatmap::pasilla |>
    dplyr::mutate(act = activation) |> 
    tidyr::nest(data = -sample) |>
    dplyr::mutate(size = rnorm(n(), 4,0.5)) |>
    dplyr::mutate(age = runif(n(), 50, 200)) |>
    tidyr::unnest(data) 

# Plot
pasilla_plus |>
    heatmap(
        .column = sample,
        .row = symbol,
        .value = `count normalised adjusted`,   
        scale = "row"
    ) |>
    annotation_tile(condition) |>
    annotation_point(activation) |>
    annotation_tile(act) |>
    annotation_bar(size) |>
    annotation_line(age)

Annotation size

We can customise annotation sizes using the grid::unit(), and the size of their names using in-built ComplexHeatmap arguments

pasilla_plus |>
    heatmap(
        .column = sample,
        .row = symbol,
        .value = `count normalised adjusted`,   
        scale = "row"
    ) |>
    annotation_tile(condition, size = unit(0.3, "cm"),  annotation_name_gp= gpar(fontsize = 8)) |>
    annotation_point(activation, size = unit(0.3, "cm"),    annotation_name_gp= gpar(fontsize = 8)) |>
    annotation_tile(act, size = unit(0.3, "cm"),    annotation_name_gp= gpar(fontsize = 8)) |>
    annotation_bar(size, size = unit(0.3, "cm"),    annotation_name_gp= gpar(fontsize = 8)) |>
    annotation_line(age, size = unit(0.3, "cm"),    annotation_name_gp= gpar(fontsize = 8))

Layer symbol

Add a layer on top of the heatmap

tidyHeatmap::pasilla |>

    # filter
    filter(symbol %in% head(unique(tidyHeatmap::pasilla$symbol), n = 10)) |>

    # Add dynamic size
    mutate(my_size = runif(n(), 1,5)) |> 

    heatmap(
        .column = sample,
        .row = symbol,
        .value = `count normalised adjusted`,   
        scale = "row"
    ) |> 
    layer_point(
        `count normalised adjusted log` > 6 & sample == "untreated3"
    ) |>
    layer_square(
        `count normalised adjusted log` > 6 & sample == "untreated2",
        .size = my_size
    ) |>
    layer_arrow_up(
        `count normalised adjusted log` > 6 & sample == "untreated1",
        .size = 4
    )

Layer text

Add a text layer on top of the heatmap

tidyHeatmap::pasilla |>

    # filter
    filter(symbol %in% head(unique(tidyHeatmap::pasilla$symbol), n = 10)) |>

    # Add dynamic text
    mutate(my_text = "mt", my_size = 7) |> 

    # Plot
    heatmap(
        .column = sample,
        .row = symbol,
        .value = `count normalised adjusted`,   
        scale = "row"
    ) |> 
    layer_text(
        `count normalised adjusted log` > 6 & sample == "untreated3", 
        .value = "a", 
        .size = 15
    ) |> 
    layer_text(
    `count normalised adjusted log` > 6 & sample == "untreated2", 
    .value = my_text,
    .size = my_size
)

Adding heatmap side-by-side

p_heatmap = heatmap(mtcars_tidy, `Car name`, Property, Value, scale = "row") 

p_heatmap + p_heatmap

ComplexHeatmap further styling

Add cell borders

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value,    
        scale = "row", 
        rect_gp = grid::gpar(col = "#161616", lwd = 0.5)
    ) 

Drop row clustering

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value,    
        scale = "row", 
        cluster_rows = FALSE
    ) 

Reorder rows elements

library(forcats)
mtcars_tidy |> 
    mutate(`Car name` = fct_reorder(`Car name`, `Car name`, .desc = TRUE)) %>% 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value,    
        scale = "row", 
        cluster_rows = FALSE
    ) 

Size of dendrograms

mtcars_tidy |> 
    mutate(`Car name` = fct_reorder(`Car name`, `Car name`, .desc = TRUE)) %>% 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value,    
        scale = "row", 
        column_dend_height = unit(0.2, "cm"), 
        row_dend_width = unit(0.2, "cm")
    ) 

Size of rows/columns titles and names

mtcars_tidy |> 
    mutate(`Car name` = fct_reorder(`Car name`, `Car name`, .desc = TRUE)) %>% 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value,    
        scale = "row", 
        row_names_gp = gpar(fontsize = 7),
        column_names_gp = gpar(fontsize = 7),
        column_title_gp = gpar(fontsize = 7),
        row_title_gp = gpar(fontsize = 7)
    ) 

External ComplexHeatmap functionalities

ComplexHeatmap has some graphical functionalities that are not included in the standard functional framework. We can use as_ComplexHeatmap to convert our output before applying drawing options.

Chainging side of legends

heatmap(mtcars_tidy, `Car name`, Property, Value, scale = "row" ) %>%
    as_ComplexHeatmap() %>%
    ComplexHeatmap::draw(heatmap_legend_side = "left"   )

Add title using draw from ComplexHeatmap

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(`Car name`, Property, Value,    scale = "row"   ) |>
    as_ComplexHeatmap() |>
    ComplexHeatmap::draw(
        column_title = "TITLE", 
        column_title_gp = gpar(fontsize = 16)
    )

Using patchwork to integrate heatmaps

library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)

p_heatmap =
    mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(
        `Car name`, Property, Value,    
        scale = "row", 
            show_heatmap_legend = FALSE,
        row_names_gp = gpar(fontsize = 7)
    ) 

p_ggplot = data.frame(value = 1:10) |> ggplot(aes(value)) + geom_density()

wrap_heatmap(p_heatmap) + 
    p_ggplot +

    # Add padding for better aesthetics
    wrap_heatmap(
        p_heatmap,
        padding = grid::unit(c(-30, -0, -0, -10), "points" ),
        clip = FALSE
    ) + 
    plot_layout(width = c(1, 0.3, 1))

Add title using ggtitle from ggplot2

mtcars_tidy |> 
    heatmap(`Car name`, Property, Value,  scale = "row" ) |>
    wrap_heatmap() +
        ggplot2::ggtitle("TITLE")


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