RNAither (version 2.20.0)

makeBoxplotControlsPerScreen: Generate a boxplot of the data vs. the controls for each experiment

Description

Generates a boxplot of intensity values of negative controls, positive controls and experimental data for each experiment available in the dataset.

Usage

makeBoxplotControlsPerScreen(header, dataset, channel, plotTitle, plotDesign, 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

plotDesign

1 or 2. 1 will generate one window containing all plots, 2 will generate a series of plots.

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 series of boxplots 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 a list containing:

plotName

the plotname

minOfScreens

the number of the first experiment

numOfScreens

he number of the last experiment

See Also

makeBoxplotControls, makeBoxplotControlsPerPlate, makeBoxplotPerPlate, makeBoxplotPerScreen

Examples

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

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