[BioC] new hexbin + adding points to hexbin plots

Naomi Altman naomi at stat.psu.edu
Mon Jul 18 19:38:07 CEST 2005


Thanks Ariel,

I was not able to find

pushHexport

and it does not appear using help.search.

--Naomi

At 01:27 PM 7/18/2005, Ariel Chernomoretz wrote:
>Hi Naomi,
>
>You could try something like this,
>
>  hbin<-hexbin(xx,yy,xbins=50)                    #hexbin plot
>  pp<-plot(hbin,legend=FALSE)
>
>
>  pushHexport(pp$plot.vp)
>  x<-seq(4,13,length=100)                               #points you want 
> to add
>  y<-mysigma.rma.bio1(x)                              #to the hexbin plot
>  grid.points(x,y,gp=gpar(col=2),pch=20)
>  popViewport()
>
>Regards,
>Ariel./
>
>
>
>On July 18, 2005 01:16 pm, Naomi Altman wrote:
> > When I download hexbin from Bioconductor and then use library(hexbin) I get
> > the message that I should download the newest version.
> >
> > The old version is fine for what I want to do, except that I would like to
> > add some points to the plot.
> >
> > e.g.  an MA plot with controls highlighted
> >
> > plot(MA$A[,1],MA$M[,1],main="MA plot")
> > points(MA$A[mypoints,1],MA$M[mypoints,1],col=2)
> >
> > I want to replace the first plot command with hexbin (so I can actually
> > visualize the dense region of the plot), but I want to be able to add my
> > points to the plot.
> >
> >
> > plot(hexbin(MA$A[,1],MA$M[,1]),main="MA plot")
> > points(MA$A[mypoints,1],MA$M[mypoints,1],col=2)
> >
> > does not give an error message.  But the points do not show up.
> >
> > If the new version can do this, could someone please point me to the
> > download site.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Naomi S. Altman                                814-865-3791 (voice)
> > Associate Professor
> > Bioinformatics Consulting Center
> > Dept. of Statistics                              814-863-7114 (fax)
> > Penn State University                         814-865-1348 (Statistics)
> > University Park, PA 16802-2111
> >
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Naomi S. Altman                                814-865-3791 (voice)
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics Consulting Center
Dept. of Statistics                              814-863-7114 (fax)
Penn State University                         814-865-1348 (Statistics)
University Park, PA 16802-2111



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