plot.cogs.legend(ProGenExpress)R Documentation

Plot a legend of the COGS categories

Description

This is a simple function which plots a legend of the COGS categories. This function can be used directly, and is also used by plotrange and plotrange.vertical

Usage

plot.cogs.legend(col.cogs = NULL, desc.col = "Description", col.col = "Color")

Arguments

col.cogs A data frame with at least two columns - one giving a textual description and the other giving a color to be assigned to that description
desc.col The column name of the column in col.cogs that contains the descriptions
col.col The column name of the column in col.cogs that contains the colors

Details

Rather surprisingly, internally this function uses barplot

Value

A graph is plotted to the current device

Author(s)

Michael Watson

References

Tatusov RL, Fedorova ND, Jackson JD, Jacobs AR, Kiryutin B, Koonin EV, Krylov DM, Mazumder R, Mekhedov SL, Nikolskaya AN, Rao BS, Smirnov S, Sverdlov AV, Vasudevan S, Wolf YI, Yin JJ, Natale DA. The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes. BMC Bioinformatics. 2003 Sep 11;4(1):41.

See Also

barplot

Examples

        
        data(cogstab) # produced by:
                          # cogstab <- read.table("cogs_category.txt", sep="\t", header=TRUE, quote=NULL, 
                          #                                     colClasses="character")
                          # cogstab <- data.frame(cogstab,Color=I(rainbow(nrow(cogstab))))

        plot.cogs.legend(cogstab)
[Package ProGenExpress version 1.0 Index]