[BioC] Difficulty in getting a boxplot display of nomralized datausing affy

[James MacDonald]

I don't think there is a boxplot command for an exprSet. You could try

boxplot(as.data.frame(exprs(howard1.norm)))


HTH, 

Jim


James W. MacDonald
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
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7410 CCGC
Ann Arbor MI 48109
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>>> Richard Friedman <friedman at cancercenter.columbia.edu> 04/29/04
03:47PM >>>
Dear Bioconductor users,

	I am currently running the latest version of affy 1.4.22 under
R 1.9.0 on Mac OSX 10.3. I am able to get a boxplot on the unnormalized

data
but not on the normalized data. Here are excerpts from my session:
 > howard1.raw
AffyBatch object
size of arrays=640x640 features (67206 kb)
cdf=MG_U74Av2 (12488 affyids)
number of samples=21
number of genes=12488
annotation=mgu74av2

 > howard1.norm <- rma(howard1.raw)
 > howard1.norm
Expression Set (exprSet) with
	12488 genes
	21 samples
		 phenoData object with 1 variables and 21 cases
	 varLabels
		sample: arbitrary numbering
 > boxplot(howard1.raw)
Yielded a boxplot.
But
 > boxplot(howard1.norm)
Error in boxplot.default(howard1.norm) : invalid first argument

Question: Should the rma normalized file be displayed by boxplot with 
the
commands that I have typed?
If not: Is there a way to display a boxplot of the normalized file?
If so: any suggestions.
In addition to affy, I so far have the following packages installed in

my Library:
[bb01friedman1:~/Library/R/library] friedman% ls
Biobase         R.css           affy            affyPLM         
affycomp        liblisting.Rda  mgu74av2cdf     reposTools

Do I need anything else to run box plot on the normalized object?

Thanks and best wishes,
Rich
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