RNAither (version 2.20.0)

plotHistoPerscreen: Plot a histogram of the data values per experiment

Description

Plots and saves a histogram of the chosen data values.

Usage

plotHistoPerscreen(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 name of the column containing the values to be plotted, e.g. "SigIntensity"

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

Saves the histograms in 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:

histoName

the plotname

minOfScreens

the number of the first experiment

numOfScreens

the number of the last experiment

See Also

plotHisto, plotHistoPerplate

Examples

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

plotHistoPerscreen(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "Distribution of Data and Controls", 1, 1)