[BioC] consistant Heatmap image based on number of genes and size of samples? - help

[Iain Gallagher]

Hi Saurin

You could try the pheatmap function / lib. It tries to pick sensible defaults for heatmaps.

best

i

--- On Thu, 16/12/10, Saurin D. Jani <saurin_jani at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Saurin D. Jani <saurin_jani at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [BioC] consistant Heatmap image based on number of genes and size of samples? - help
> To: "Bioconductor Bioconductor" <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Date: Thursday, 16 December, 2010, 14:16
> Hi BioC,
> 
> is there any function/parameter settings in R/BioC which
> adjusts the Heatmap image based on sample size and number of
> genes which needs to be plotted on image. 
> 
> The problem is when I generate Heatmap with :
> 
> bitmap(file = Hfile, type = "png16m", height = MapH, width
> = MapW, res = 72, units = "px",pointsize = 16);
> 
> where Hfile, MapH and MapW are variables I use to generate
> heatmap image file. (PNG)
> 
> 
> 
> if samples are 500 and genes are 300 .... it works with
> certain margin , height, width but if I do.. 500 samples and
> 4 genes only..the size are too big..I mean its obvious there
> are less num. of genes to plot..but is there any parameter
> settings which will adjust image size?
> 
> 
> Thank you so much in advance,
> Saurin
> 
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