EMA (version 1.4.3)

distrib.plot: Distribution plots of genes expression level

Description

Plot the distribution of the expression level of each gene of interest.

Usage

distrib.plot(data, labels = NULL, plot = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

data

Expression matrix, genes on rows and samples on columns

labels

A character string or numeric vector of label

plot

If true, plots are displayed

...

Arguments to be passed to methods, such as graphical parameters (see 'par').

Value

• A list of objects of class 'histogram':
• mids
  The n cell midpoints
• counts
  n integers; for each cell, the number of 'x[]' inside.

Details

For each gene (row of the matrix), the distribution of the expression level for all the samples is ploted. The colors are chosen according to the label information.

See Also

hist

Examples

data(marty)

distrib.plot(marty[1:5,], labels=marty.type.cl)