flowPlots (version 1.20.0)

makeBarplotData: Prepare Profile Data for a Call to Barplot()

Description

This function takes a dataframe of profile data and prepares a matrix of data for input to barplot()

Usage

makeBarplotData(profileData, profileColumns, groupVariableName)

Arguments

profileData

dataframe of profile data, such as cell categories of cells

profileColumns

the columns of profileData to include in the barplot

groupVariableName

the column in the dataframe containing the group info

Value

a matrix whose rows represent different profile categories and whose columns represent different groups. Each cell in the matrix contains the mean value for the group for a given profile category. For profile data with 16 cytokine combinations for each of 2 groups, the matrix returned with have dimensions (16,2).

See Also

GroupListBoxplot

Examples

data(profileDF)
profileDataSubset = subset(profileDF, stim=="LPS" & concGroup==3 & cell=="mDC")
profileColumns = 1:16
barplotData = makeBarplotData(profileDataSubset, profileColumns, groupVariableName="group")
barplotDataWithLegend = cbind(barplotData, NA, NA)
barColors = gray(0:15/15)[16:1]
barplot(barplotDataWithLegend, col=barColors, main="Stimulation = LPS 
   Concentration Group = 3 
   Cell = mDC")
legendNames = rownames(barplotData)
legend(2.75, 100, legend=legendNames[16:1], col=barColors[16:1], cex=.8, pch=20)