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Plots the data

Source: R/plot_data.R
plot_data.Rd

Plots allelic data as a grid of coloured rectangles.

Usage

plot_data(
  ys,
  fs = NULL,
  person.vert = FALSE,
  mar = c(1.5, 3.5, 1.5, 1),
  gridlines = TRUE,
  palette = RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(12, "Paired"),
  marker.annotate = TRUE,
  legend.lab = "Allele frequencies",
  legend.line = 0.2,
  legend.ylim = c(0.05, 0.2),
  cex.maj = 0.7,
  cex.min = 0.5,
  cex.text = 0.5,
  x.line = 0.2,
  y.line = 2.5
)

Arguments

ys

Nested list of per-person, per-episode, per-marker allelic data; see Examples and compute_posterior() for the expected per-person structure.

fs

A per-marker list of numeric vectors of allele frequencies. If NULL (default), only the alleles present in ys are shown in the the legend, with all per-marker alleles represented equally. Because the colour scheme is adaptive, the same allele may have different colours given different ys. If fs is specified, all alleles in fs feature in the legend with areas proportional to allele frequencies, so that common alleles occupy larger areas than rarer alleles. Specify fs to fix the allele colour scheme across plots of different ys.

person.vert

Logical. If TRUE (default), person IDs are printed vertically; otherwise, they are printed horizontally.

mar

Vector of numbers of lines of margin for the main plot; see mar entry of par.

gridlines

Logical. If true (default), white grid lines separating people and markers are drawn.

palette

Colour palette for alleles, see the Value section of brewer.pal. Generally, colours are interpolated: if a marker has d possible alleles, then the colours used are the 1/(d+1), ..., d/(d+1) quantiles of the palette to ensure that markers with different allele counts use different colours.

marker.annotate

Logical. If true (default), the names of the alleles are printed on top of their colours in the legend.

legend.lab

Label for the axis of the legend. Defaults to "Allele frequencies". Set to NA to omit the label; if so, consider adjusting legend.ylim to use more plotting space.

legend.line

Distance (in character heights) from the colour bar to the legend label (defaults to 1.5).

legend.ylim

Vector specifying the y-coordinate limits of the legend in device coordinates (between 0 and 1). Defaults to c(0.05, 0.2).

cex.maj

Numeric; font scaling of major axis labels.

cex.min

Numeric; font scaling of minor axis labels.

cex.text

Numeric; font scaling of the allele labels.

x.line

Distance between top x-axis and x-axis label, defaults to 0.2.

y.line

Distance between left y-axis and y-axis label, defaults to 2.5.

Value

None

Details

This function plots alleles (colours), which are observed in different episodes (columns), on different markers (rows), with episodes grouped by person. Per-person episodes are plotted from left to right in chronological order. If multiple alleles are detected for a marker within an episode, the corresponding grid element is subdivided vertically into different colours.

By default, markers are ordered lexicographically. If fs is provided, markers are ordered to match the order within fs.

The legend depicts the alleles for each marker in the same vertical order as the main plot. The default colour scheme is adaptive, designed to visually differentiate the alleles as clearly as possible by maximizing hue contrast within a qualitative palette. Interpolation is used to make different colour palettes for markers with different numbers of possible alleles. The names of the alleles are printed on top of their colours if marker.annotate is set to TRUE.

Examples


oldpar <- par(no.readonly = TRUE) # Store user's options before plotting

# Plot example Plasmodium vivax data set:
mar <- c(2, 3.5, 1.5, 1) # extra vertical margin for vertical person labels
plot_data(ys = ys_VHX_BPD, person.vert = TRUE, mar = mar, legend.lab = NA)

plot_data(ys = ys_VHX_BPD, person.vert = TRUE, mar = mar, legend.lab = NA,
          fs = fs_VHX_BPD)

plot_data(ys = ys_VHX_BPD, person.vert = TRUE, mar = mar, legend.lab = NA,
          fs = fs_VHX_BPD, marker.annotate = FALSE)


# Demonstrating the adaptive nature of the colour scheme:
ys <- ys_VHX_BPD["VHX_52"] # A single person
plot_data(ys, fs = fs_VHX_BPD, marker.annotate = FALSE) # Colours match above

plot_data(ys) # Colours and the legend adapt to alleles detected in VHX_52


par(oldpar) # Restore user's options