labeledHeatmap: Produce a labeled heatmap plot

Description

Plots a heatmap plot with color legend, row and column annotation, and optional text within th heatmap.

Usage

labeledHeatmap(
  Matrix, 
  xLabels, yLabels = NULL, 
  xSymbols = NULL, ySymbols = NULL, 
  colorLabels = NULL, 
  xColorLabels = FALSE, yColorLabels = FALSE, 
  checkColorsValid = TRUE,
  invertColors = FALSE, 
  setStdMargins = TRUE, 
  xLabelsPosition = "bottom",
  xLabelsAngle = 45,
  xLabelsAdj = 1,
  xColorWidth = 0.05,
  yColorWidth = 0.05,
  colors = NULL, 
  textMatrix = NULL, 
  cex.text = NULL, cex.lab = NULL, 
  cex.lab.x = cex.lab,
  cex.lab.y = cex.lab,
  colors.lab.x = 1,
  colors.lab.y = 1,
  plotLegend = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

Matrix

numerical matrix to be plotted in the heatmap.

xLabels

labels for the columns. See Details.

yLabels

labels for the rows. See Details.

xSymbols

additional labels used when xLabels are interpreted as colors. See Details.

ySymbols

additional labels used when yLabels are interpreted as colors. See Details.

colorLabels

logical: should xLabels and yLabels be interpreted as colors? If given, overrides xColorLabels and yColorLabels below.

xColorLabels

logical: should xLabels be interpreted as colors?

yColorLabels

logical: should yLabels be interpreted as colors?

checkColorsValid

logical: should given colors be checked for validity against the output of colors() ? If this argument is FALSE, invalid color specification will trigger an error.

invertColors

logical: should the color order be inverted?

setStdMargins

logical: should standard margins be set before calling the plot function? Standard margins depend on colorLabels: they are wider for text labels and narrower for color labels. The defaults are static, that is the function does not attempt t

xLabelsPosition

a character string specifying the position of labels for the columns. Recognized values are (unique abbreviations of) "top", "bottom".

xLabelsAngle

angle by which the column labels should be rotated.

xLabelsAdj

justification parameter for column labels. See par and the description of parameter "adj".

xColorWidth

width of the color labels for the x axis expressed as a fraction of the smaller of the range of the x and y axis.

yColorWidth

width of the color labels for the y axis expressed as a fraction of the smaller of the range of the x and y axis.

colors

color pallette to be used in the heatmap. Defaults to heat.colors.

textMatrix

optional matrix of text entries of the same dimensions as Matrix.

cex.text

character expansion factor for textMatrix.

cex.lab

character expansion factor for text labels labeling the axes.

cex.lab.x

character expansion factor for text labels labeling the x axis. Overrides cex.lab above.

cex.lab.y

character expansion factor for text labels labeling the y axis. Overrides cex.lab above.

colors.lab.x

colors for character labels or symbols along x axis.

colors.lab.y

colors for character labels or symbols along y axis.

plotLegend

logical: should a color legend be plotted?

...

other arguments to function heatmap.

Value

None.

Details

The function basically plots a standard heatmap plot of the given Matrix and embellishes it with row and column labels and/or with text within the heatmap entries. Row and column labels can be either character strings or color squares, or both. To get simple text labels, use colorLabels=FALSE and pass the desired row and column labels in yLabels and xLabels, respectively. To label rows and columns by color squares, use colorLabels=TRUE; yLabels and xLabels are then expected to represent valid colors. For reasons of compatibility with other functions, each entry in yLabels and xLabels is expected to consist of a color designation preceded by 2 characters: an example would be MEturquoise. The first two characters can be arbitrary, they are stripped. Any labels that do not represent valid colors will be considered text labels and printed in full, allowing the user to mix text and color labels. It is also possible to label rows and columns by both color squares and additional text annotation. To achieve this, use the above technique to get color labels and, additionally, pass the desired text annotation in the xSymbols and ySymbols arguments.

Examples

Run this code

# This example illustrates 4 main ways of annotating columns and rows of a heatmap.
# Copy and paste the whole example into an R session with an interactive plot window;
# alternatively, you may replace the command sizeGrWindow below by opening another graphical device such
# as pdf.

# Generate a matrix to be plotted

nCol = 8; nRow = 7;
mat = matrix(runif(nCol*nRow, min = -1, max = 1), nRow, nCol);

rowColors = standardColors(nRow);
colColors = standardColors(nRow + nCol)[(nRow+1):(nRow + nCol)];

rowColors;
colColors;

sizeGrWindow(9,7)
par(mfrow = c(2,2))
par(mar = c(4, 5, 4, 6));

# Label rows and columns by text:

labeledHeatmap(mat, xLabels = colColors, yLabels = rowColors, 
               colors = greenWhiteRed(50),
               setStdMargins = FALSE, 
               textMatrix = signif(mat, 2),
               main = "Text-labeled heatmap");

# Label rows and columns by colors:

rowLabels = paste("ME", rowColors, sep="");
colLabels = paste("ME", colColors, sep="");

labeledHeatmap(mat, xLabels = colLabels, yLabels = rowLabels,
               colorLabels = TRUE,
               colors = greenWhiteRed(50),
               setStdMargins = FALSE,
               textMatrix = signif(mat, 2),
               main = "Color-labeled heatmap");

# Mix text and color labels:

rowLabels[3] = "Row 3";
colLabels[1] = "Column 1";

labeledHeatmap(mat, xLabels = colLabels, yLabels = rowLabels,
               colorLabels = TRUE,
               colors = greenWhiteRed(50),
               setStdMargins = FALSE,
               textMatrix = signif(mat, 2), 
               main = "Mix-labeled heatmap");

# Color labels and additional text labels

rowLabels = paste("ME", rowColors, sep="");
colLabels = paste("ME", colColors, sep="");

extraRowLabels = paste("Row", c(1:nRow));
extraColLabels = paste("Column", c(1:nCol));

# Extend margins to fit all labels
par(mar = c(6, 6, 4, 6));
labeledHeatmap(mat, xLabels = colLabels, yLabels = rowLabels,
               xSymbols = extraColLabels,
               ySymbols = extraRowLabels,
               colorLabels = TRUE,
               colors = greenWhiteRed(50),
               setStdMargins = FALSE,
               textMatrix = signif(mat, 2),
               main = "Text- + color-labeled heatmap");