makeBoxplotControls         package:RNAither         R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Generates a boxplot of intensity values of negative controls,
     positive controls and experimental data.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     makeBoxplotControls(header, dataset, channel, plotTitle, showPlot)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  header: the header of a dataset file generated with
          'generateDatasetFile' 

 dataset: an R data frame generated with 'generateDatasetFile' 

 channel: a character string specifying the column whose values will be
          used for the boxplot 

plotTitle: the plot title 

showPlot: 0 or 1. 1 will open one or several plot windows in the R GUI,
          0 will only save the plot(s) without opening windows. 

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A boxplot of intensity values of negative controls, positive
     controls and experimental data will be saved as a pdf and a png
     file named after the experiment name specified in the header
     concatenated with the ' plotTitle'.

     The function returns the plot name.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'makeBoxplotControlsPerScreen', 'makeBoxplotControlsPerPlate',
     'makeBoxplotPerPlate', 'makeBoxplotPerScreen'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(exampleHeader, package="RNAither")
     data(exampleDataset, package="RNAither")

     makeBoxplotControls(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "Data vs. Controls", 1)

