[R] heatmap and continuous variable

Gregory Warnes gregory.warnes at rochester.edu
Wed Jun 25 03:05:56 CEST 2008


Hello Hans,

Do you need *both* a categorical *and* a continuous variable, or just a
continuous variable?

-Greg


On 6/24/08 4:51PM , "Hans-Ulrich Klein" <h.klein at uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I want to plot a heat map with annotated columns. Both functions heatmap
> (stats) and heatmap.2 (gplots) can plot a horizontal side bar that can
> be used to visualize a categorical variable. In addition to a
> categorical variable, I would like to visualize a continuous variable.
> This could be done by small bars, a curve or simply numbers above the
> columns. (The Sample names are already located at the bottom.)
> 
> Does someone have example code for this or a similar problem? Is this so
> special that I have to get down to the lattice package?
> 
> Thank you,
> Hans-Ulrich

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