[R] adding labels to x,y points

[B77S]

I don't have access to your "alon.txt" file (see ?dput for future posts),
but...

I'm pretty sure info you want isn't in row.names(colon[1:2])
it should just be 

text(x,y, label = colon[1:20]) 


??
HTH



baumeist wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am new to R.
> 
> I have a matrix that I have assigned to the object “colon”.
> 
>> colon<-read.table("c:\\alon.txt",header=T,row.names=1)
> 
> attach(colon)
> names(colon)
> 
> The dimenstions are 2000   62.
> 
> Each of the 62 columns (titled norm1, norm2, norm3, etc) has 2000
> different numbers (‘continuous’ values) within it.
> 
> I have also assigned a name for each of the 2000 rows of the dataframe
> with a prefix (i.e. g1 …. g2000) using the code (not sure if I did this
> right):
> 
>> colon<-paste("g",c(1:nrow(colon)),sep="")
> 
> I have plotted the first 20 values from two of the columns(samples).
> 
>> x<-c(norm1[1:20])
> 
>> y<-c(norm2[1:20])
> 
>> plot(x,y,type='n',xlab='x norm1 sample',ylab='y norm2 sample',main='Norm1
>> vs Norm2 - 20
> genes')
> 
>> points(x,y,pch=15,col='blue')
> 
> Now I wish to assign labels to each point (above each point (i.e. pos=3)
> in the plot with “g1 to g20 corresponding to each row but I am having
> trouble with this step.
> 
> I have tried:
> 
>> text(x,y, label = row.names(colon[1:20])) 
> 
> but nothing happens. 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> MAB
> 


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