test.correlation {RPPanalyzer}

Tests for correlations in RPPA data

Description

Tests for correlation between protein expression value and any continuous data using cor.test.

Usage

test.correlation(x, param, method.cor = "kendall", 
	method.padj = "BH", file = "correlation_plot.pdf") 

Arguments

x

List containing RPPa data set

param

character describing the parameter

method.cor

character string describing the correlation

method.padj

character string describing the method for the p-value correction for multiple testing.

file

character string

Value

generates a pdf file

Author(s)

Heiko Mannsperger <[e-mail]>

See Also

For information about the argument method.cor see cor.test, informations about methods.padj can be found under p.adjust

Examples

## Not run: 
library(RPPanalyzer)
data(dataIII)
dataIII_median <- sample.median(dataIII)
test.correlation(dataIII_median,param="staging")


## End(Not run)