makeBoxplotControls {RNAither}R Documentation

Generate a boxplot of the data vs. the controls

Description

Generates a boxplot of intensity values of negative controls, positive controls and experimental data.

Usage

makeBoxplotControls(header, dataset, channel, plotTitle, showPlot)

Arguments

header

the header of a dataset file generated with generateDatasetFile

dataset

an R data frame generated with generateDatasetFile

channel

a character string specifying the column whose values will be used for the boxplot

plotTitle

the plot title

showPlot

0 or 1. 1 will open one or several plot windows in the R GUI, 0 will only save the plot(s) without opening windows.

Value

A boxplot of intensity values of negative controls, positive controls and experimental data will be saved as a pdf and a png file named after the experiment name specified in the header concatenated with the plotTitle.

The function returns the plot name.

See Also

makeBoxplotControlsPerScreen, makeBoxplotControlsPerPlate, makeBoxplotPerPlate, makeBoxplotPerScreen

Examples

data(exampleHeader, package="RNAither")
data(exampleDataset, package="RNAither")

makeBoxplotControls(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "Data vs. Controls", 1)

[Package RNAither version 2.32.0 Index]