MKmisc (version 1.9)

heatmapCol: Generate colors for heatmaps

Description

This function modifies a given color vector as used for heatmaps.

Usage

heatmapCol(data, col, lim, na.rm = TRUE)

Value

vector of colors

Arguments

data

matrix or data.frame; data which shall be displayed in a heatmap; ranging from negative to positive numbers.

col

vector of colors used for heatmap.

lim

constant colors are used for data below -lim resp. above lim.

na.rm

logical; remove NA values.

Author

Matthias Kohl

Details

Colors below and above a specified value are kept constant. In addition, the colors are symmetrizised.

Examples

data.plot <- matrix(rnorm(100*50, sd = 1), ncol = 50)
colnames(data.plot) <- paste("patient", 1:50)
rownames(data.plot) <- paste("gene", 1:100)
data.plot[1:70, 1:30] <- data.plot[1:70, 1:30] + 3
data.plot[71:100, 31:50] <- data.plot[71:100, 31:50] - 1.4
data.plot[1:70, 31:50] <- rnorm(1400, sd = 1.2)
data.plot[71:100, 1:30] <- rnorm(900, sd = 1.2)
nrcol <- 128

require(gplots)
require(RColorBrewer)
myCol <- rev(colorRampPalette(brewer.pal(10, "RdBu"))(nrcol))
heatmap.2(data.plot, col =  myCol, trace = "none", tracecol = "black")
farbe <- heatmapCol(data = data.plot, col = myCol, 
                    lim = min(abs(range(data.plot)))-1)
heatmap.2(data.plot, col = farbe, trace = "none", tracecol = "black")