plotQC {xcms} | R Documentation

## Plot m/z and RT deviations for QC purposes without external reference data

### Description

Use "democracy" to determine the average m/z and RT deviations for a grouped xcmsSet, and dependency on sample or absolute m/z

### Usage

    plotQC(object, sampNames, sampColors, sampOrder, what)

### Arguments

`object` | A grouped `xcmsSet`
`sampNames` | Override sample names (e.g. with simplified names)
`sampColors` | Provide a set of colors (default: monochrome ?)
`sampOrder` | Override the order of samples, e.g. to bring them in order of measurement to detect time drift
`what` | A vector of which QC plots to generate. "mzdevhist": histogram of mz deviations. Should be gaussian shaped. If it is multimodal, then some peaks seem to have a systematically higher m/z deviation "rtdevhist": histogram of RT deviations. Should be gaussian shaped. If it is multimodal, then some peaks seem to have a systematically higher RT deviation "mzdevmass": Shows whether m/z deviations are absolute m/z dependent, could indicate miscalibration "mzdevtime": Shows whether m/z deviations are RT dependent, could indicate instrument drift "mzdevsample": median mz deviation for each sample, indicates outliers "rtdevsample": median RT deviation for each sample, indicates outliers

### Details

plotQC() is a warpper to create a set of diagnostic plots. For the m/z deviations, the median of all m/z withon one group are assumed.

### Value

List with four matrices, each of dimension features * samples: "mz": median mz deviation for each sample "mzdev": median mz deviation for each sample "rt": median RT deviation for each sample "rtdev": median RT deviation for each sample

### Author(s)

Michael Wenk, Michael Wenk <michael.wenk@student.uni-halle.de>

### Examples

    library(faahKO)
    xsg <- group(faahko)

    plotQC(xsg, what="mzdevhist")
    plotQC(xsg, what="rtdevhist")
    plotQC(xsg, what="mzdevmass")
    plotQC(xsg, what="mzdevtime")
    plotQC(xsg, what="mzdevsample")
    plotQC(xsg, what="rtdevsample")

[Package xcms version 3.9.1 Index]