[R] Making a very specific heatmap in R (ggplot2?)

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On October 16, 2014 7:02:37 PM PDT, Alexander Predeus <predeus at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I'm trying to figure out the (automated) way to generate heatmaps from
>simple data tables with annotated rows and columns. In the end, I need
>these files to be easily viewed in a browser.
>
>The initial data tables are simple; numbers are row-normalized (values
>are
>real numbers varying from -1.0 to +1.0), with rows numbered from a zero
>to
>a certain integer, and columns are named with (sometimes lengthy)
>strings.
>
>What I came up with so far is building the heatmap using standard
>facility
>with a set resolution of the final png file:
>
>Which sort of works sometimes:
>
>And fails pretty miserably other times:
>
>What I really would like to do, is to make a heatmap with set number of
>pixels per square, with a set font size (in pixels as well), and then
>save
>it as a .png with variable resolution (appropriate for each concrete
>heatmap). That way, a cell would be always say 10 by 10 pixels, and the
>text on the right is always 8 pixels tall.
>
>Alternatively, of course, it would be very neat to save it in some
>vector
>format easily interpreted by the browser, but I have an impression it
>is
>not an easy feat to accomplish.
>
>Thank you very much in advance.
>
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