plotControlHisto {RNAither} | R Documentation

## Plot a histogram of the data values and controls

### Description

Plots and saves a histogram of data values and shows the controls, if available, in color.

### Usage

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

### Arguments

`header` | the header of a dataset file generated with `generateDatasetFile`
`dataset` | an R data frame generated with `generateDatasetFile`
`channel` | a character string specifying the name of the column containing the values to be plotted, e.g. `"SigIntensity"`
`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.

### Value

Saves the histogram in a pdf and a png file named after the experiment name specified in the header concatenated with the `plotTitle`.
Positive controls are plotted in green, negative controls in red.
The funtion returns the plot name.

### See Also

`plotControlHistoPerplate`, `plotControlHistoPerscreen`

### Examples

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

    plotControlHisto(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "Distribution of Data and Controls", 1)

[Package RNAither version 1.4.2 Index]