plotPvsRank: Plot list of p-values against their ranks

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

Description

This function plot a list of adjusted p-values against the index of the entries ranked ascendingly by their p-value. This allows assesing how the distributions of p-values compare between different studies or against a meta-analysis.

Usage

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plotPvsRank(pvals, s.legend = NULL, colos = NULL, ylim = NULL, log =
"y", plot.title = NULL, zero.sub = 1e-05, legend.pos = "topright", lty = 1, lwd = 2)

Arguments

pvals

A (named) list containing two data.frames or arrays with two columns. The first columns contains the raw p-values and the second one the adjusted ones.

s.legend

The names of the studies (used in the plot legend). Either this or names of pvals have to be set.

colos

Colors to be used for the plotting. If less than 12 studies are given in pvals and colos is not set, colors will be inferred from RColorBrewer.

ylim

Limits for plotting the y-axis (Must be between 0 and 1).

log

Which axis should be printed log scaled. Either ('y' (default),'x','xy' or ”)

plot.title

The plot title.

zero.sub

Replacemetn for 0s.

legend.pos

Position of the legend.

lty

Line with passed to plot and legend.

lwd

Line type passed to plot and legend.

Details

A graphical representation of studie p-values and meta-analysis results as given in Rhodes et al. 2002.

If you have a named list and s.legend set, the later parameter will be used in the legend plot.

Having log set to y or xy and the y-axis including 0, this will result in an error.

In case you want to print the study raw p-values against their rank, just have the second column contain the values from the first one.

Value

A plot

Author(s)

Karl Kugler <karl@eigenlab.net>

References

Rhodes, D. R., (2002). Meta-analysis of microarrays: interstudy validation of gene expression profiles reveals pathway dysregulation in prostate cancer. Cancer research, 62(15), 4427-33.

Examples

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pvals <- lapply(1:11, function(i){runif(1000)})

set.seed(12345)
pvals <- lapply(1:11, function(i){pnorm(rnorm(1000, sd=sample(c(1,1.2,1.4),1)), lower=TRUE)})
pvals <- lapply(pvals, function(x){cbind(x, p.adjust(x,method="BH"))})
names(pvals) <- paste("study",1:11)
plotPvsRank(pvals, lwd=2, lty=1)

##make line for last study look different
plotPvsRank(pvals, lwd=c(rep(1,10),2), lty=c(rep(1,10),2))

#log scale only x
plotPvsRank(pvals, log="x", lwd=2, lty=1)

#inverse y,  place legend at the bottom, and add title
plotPvsRank(pvals, log="y", ylim=c(0.0001,1),lwd=2, lty=1,
legend.pos="bottomright", plot.title="my title")

MADAM documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:18 p.m.

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