[BioC] simpleaffy question

[James W. MacDonald]

J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk wrote:
> Quoting "D.Enrique ESCOBAR ESPINOZA" <escobarebio at yahoo.com>:
> 
> 
>>HI ,
>>does someone know if there is a built-inn
>>function for adding a legend to the QC grph obtained
>>with :
>>data(Dilution)
>>plot(qc(Dilution))
>>or if there is an easy way to add a legend to this graph
>>thanks.
> 
> 
> In general I find that one or some of these functions help me annotate  
> any plot in R:
> 
> ?text
> ?mtext
> ?title
> ?legend
> 
> I presume you probably were looking for 'legend'.

Unfortunately legend won't work in this case. The qc() plot is produced 
after a call to layout(), which cuts the plotting device into four 
sections. The last section to be plotted is the upper left hand, which 
contains the names of the QC probesets. If you make a call to legend(), 
it will put the legend in that very small section, most likely right on 
top of the names of the QC probesets.

To see what I mean, try this code (which comes directly from this 
plotting function):

m <- matrix(c(4, 2, 1, 3), nrow = 2, ncol = 2)
layout(m, c(1, 2), c(0.1, 1))
layout.show(4)

The plots will be added to each box in the order listed.

That said, if you want to hack the code it wouldn't be that difficult to 
  add a call to legend() right after the second call to plot() in the 
function plot.qc.stats(). This will put a legend in the second layout 
box, which currently only contains the chip names on the extreme right 
edge. If you placed the legend "upperleft" and made the font size small 
enough, it might fit.

Luckily, since simpleaffy doesn't use a namespace, you can simply 
copy-paste the function into an editor, hack away, then source() back in 
and go.

HTH,

Jim


> 
> Jose
> 


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James W. MacDonald
University of Michigan
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
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