[R] labRow/labCol options in heatmap()

[Sean Davis]

Anja,

Not meant as a plug, but heatmap.2 in the gregmisc package has the correct
behavior and a few other options.

Sean

On 6/3/04 9:01 AM, "Martin Maechler" <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:

> {I'm vading through old "todo" e-mails...}
> 
>>>>>> "Anja" == Anja von Heydebreck <heydebre at molgen.mpg.de>
>>>>>>     on Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:41:13 +0100 writes:
> 
>   Anja> The function heatmap() allows to specify row/column labels
>   Anja> via the options labRow/labCol. From the code of heatmap(),
>   Anja> I understand that when no labels are specified, the row/column
>   Anja> labels (or indices) of the input matrix are taken as labels and
>   Anja> re-ordered together with the rows and columns of the matrix before
>   Anja> plotting, whereas labels supplied via labRow/labCol are plotted
>   Anja> in the original order.
> 
>   <..........>
> 
>   Anja> To see an example, try
> 
>   Anja> a <- matrix(c(1,1,1,2,0,2), nrow=3)
>   Anja> rownames(a) <- 1:3
>   Anja> x11()
>   Anja> heatmap(a)
>   Anja> x11()
>   Anja> heatmap(a, labRow=rownames(a))
> 
>   Anja> Is this really meant to work like this? - From
>   Anja> the help of heatmap(), one might expect also user-supplied
>   Anja> labels to be re-ordered together with the rows and
>   Anja> columns of the matrix.
> 
> Yes, indeed -- and as you suggest, the current behavior is not
> what it should be.
> 
> This is being fixed in R-patched aka "R 1.9.1 alpha" (to be
> 1.9.1 later this month).
> 
> Thanking you for the clear report,
> Martin Maechler
> 
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