Represents a cloud of points with colors
The loadingplot
function represents positive values of a vector
and identifies the values above a given threshold. It can also
indicate groups of observations provided as a factor.
Such graphics can be used, for instance, to assess the weight of each variable (loadings) in a given analysis.
loadingplot(x, ...) ## Default S3 method: loadingplot(x, at=NULL, threshold=quantile(x,0.75), axis=1, fac=NULL, byfac=FALSE, lab=NULL, cex.lab=0.7, cex.fac=1, lab.jitter=0, main="Loading plot", xlab="Variables", ylab="Loadings", srt = 0, adj = NULL, ...)
x |
either a vector with numeric values to be plotted, or a
matrix-like object containing numeric values. In such case, the
|
at |
an optional numeric vector giving the abscissa at which loadings are plotted. Useful when variates are SNPs with a known position in an alignement. |
threshold |
a threshold value above which values of x are identified. By default, this is the third quartile of x. |
axis |
an integer indicating the column of x to be plotted; used only if x is a matrix-like object. |
fac |
a factor defining groups of observations. |
byfac |
a logical stating whether loadings should be averaged by
groups of observations, as defined by |
lab |
a character vector giving the labels used to annotate values above the threshold; if NULL, names are taken from the object. |
cex.lab |
a numeric value indicating the size of annotations. |
cex.fac |
a numeric value indicating the size of annotations for groups of observations. |
lab.jitter |
a numeric value indicating the factor of randomisation for the position of annotations. Set to 0 (by default) implies no randomisation. |
main |
the main title of the figure. |
xlab |
the title of the x axis. |
ylab |
the title of the y axis. |
srt |
rotation of the labels; see ?text. |
adj |
adjustment of the labels; see ?text. |
... |
further arguments to be passed to the plot function. |
Invisibly returns a list with the following components:
- threshold: the threshold used
- var.names: the names of observations above the threshold
- var.idx: the indices of observations above the threshold
- var.values: the values above the threshold
Thibaut Jombart t.jombart@imperial.ac.uk
x <- runif(20) names(x) <- letters[1:20] grp <- factor(paste("group", rep(1:4,each=5))) ## basic plot loadingplot(x) ## adding groups loadingplot(x,fac=grp,main="My title",cex.lab=1)
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