makeBoxplot4PlateType        package:RNAither        R Documentation

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

     Generates a boxplot comparing the same plates in different
     experiments.

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

     makeBoxplot4PlateType(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:

     For each plate type, a boxplot of intensity values per experiment
     will be saved as a pdf and a png file named after the experiment
     name specified in the header concatenated with the ' plotTitle'
     and the number of the plate.

     The function returns a list containing:

plotName : the plotname

minOfPlates : the number of the first experiment

numOfPlates : the number of the last experiment

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

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

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

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

     makeBoxplot4PlateType(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "Data vs. Controls", 1)

