[BioC] diff (Beginner's question)

[Adaikalavan RAMASAMY]

3rd line of the "Value" section of help(diff) :

" If x is a matrix then the difference operations are carried out on
each column separately. "

i.e. the difference returned as c( row2 -row1, row3 - row2, row4 - row3,
... ) and naturally row_(n+1) - row_n is undefined as there is no
row_(n+1), thus the resulting data will have one less row than the
original one.

If you use diff(exprs(x)), then you are calculating difference between
consecutive genes which does not have any meaning.
Try diff( t( exprs(x) ) ) or simply (x)[,1] - exprs(x)[,2].


--
Adaikalavan Ramasamy 

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[mailto:bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of peter
robinson
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:07 AM
To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [BioC] diff (Beginner's question)


Dear all,

I have analyzed one data with (8 arrays of 4 wildtype and 4 ko) set
basically 
according to the methods outlined in the End2Endlab vignette. The
analysis 
includes a function:

scores <- esApply(eset,1,function(x) {
tmp <- t.test(x[index2],x[index1],var.equal=T)
c(mean(tmp$estimate),-diff(tmp$estimate),tmp$statistic,
tmp$p.value)
})


I would like to compare this with another dataset with one array each
(pooled 
RNAs) wt vs ko (for a related gene being knocked out). 

I used the rma function to produce an eset of the second dataset, and
then 
tried to use

e <- -diff(exprs(eset2))


in order to produce the average log ratio for the second dataset with
the 
intention of adding it to "scores" as follows:

scores2 <- cbind(scores,e)

However, e is missing the first line as compared to the first dataset
dim(e)
12487  2
dim(scores)
12488   5
and in fact
100001_at  is missing from e.

I would greatly appreciate comments or suggestions!

Peter Robinson

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