plotQQ               package:RNAither               R Documentation

_M_a_k_e _a _Q_Q _p_l_o_t

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

     Shows and saves a QQ plot of the data.

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

     plotQQ(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 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. 

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

     Saves the QQ plot in 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:

     'plotQQperscreen', 'plotQQperplate'

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

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

     plotQQ(header, dataset, "SigIntensity", "QQplot", 1)

