try rggobi for this sort of thing, it is really quite useful once you get
accustomed to it.  especially in conjunction with the pcaMethods package
(IMHO, YMMV, etc.)



On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:06 AM, James W. MacDonald <jmacdon@uw.edu> wrote:

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> On 10/5/2012 11:52 AM, Kasoji, Manjula (NIH/NCI) [C] wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick response, Jim. I can't believe I missed that in the
>> documentation. I can add text to the 2d plot, but I was unable to do it
>> for the 3d plot. Is this feature not available for 3d?
>>
>
> Not using plotPCA(). I use rgl for the 3d plotting, and haven't really
> explored it enough to add the text to the plot.
>
> However, you can easily do something close to what you want.
>
> pca <- prcomp(t(exprs(eset)))
> text3d(pca$x[,1:3], text = sampleNames(eset))
>
> You will likely need to fiddle around with things to get what you like,
> but that is the general idea.
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/5/12 11:41AM, "James W. MacDonald"<jmacdon@uw.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Hi Guest,
>>>
>>> On 10/5/2012 11:35 AM, Guest [guest] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using affycoretools() to generate some pca plots. I found that I
>>>> have some outliers. I was wondering, how do I find out which particular
>>>> sample (.CEL file) was the outlier?
>>>>
>>>>    I know which group it is from, but not the identity.
>>>>
>>>> I've plotted pca plots with just using the plot() function as well, but
>>>> I still do not know how to identify the particular sample that is the
>>>> outlier.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas for both affycoretools() or the general plot() function will
>>>> be appreciated!
>>>>
>>> See ?plotPCA, in particular the addtext argument.
>>>
>>> plotPCA(eset, groups, groupnames, addtext = sampleNames(eset))
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Guest
>>>>
>>>>    -- output of sessionInfo():
>>>>
>>>> No error, just question about how find out further details.
>>>>
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