plotPheno {qtl} | R Documentation |
Plot a phenotype distribution
Description
Plots a histogram or barplot of the data for a phenotype from an experimental cross.
Usage
plotPheno(x, pheno.col=1, ...)
Arguments
x |
An object of class |
pheno.col |
The phenotype column to plot: a numeric index, or the phenotype name as a character string. Alternatively, one may give a numeric vector of phenotypes, in which case it must have the length equal to the number of individuals in the cross, and there must be either non-integers or values < 1 or > no. phenotypes; this last case may be useful for studying transformations. |
... |
Details
Numeric phenotypes are displayed as histograms with approximately
2\sqrt{n}
bins. Phenotypes that are factors or that
have very few unique values are displayed as barplots.
Value
None.
Author(s)
Karl W Broman, broman@wisc.edu
See Also
plot.cross
, plotMap
,
plotMissing
,
hist
, barplot
Examples
data(fake.bc)
plotPheno(fake.bc, pheno.col=1)
plotPheno(fake.bc, pheno.col=3)
plotPheno(fake.bc, pheno.col="age")