[BioC] Variations of plotting symbols

[Ochsner, Scott A]

Kamila,

Thanks,

This is exactly what I needed.  I failed to dig deep enough into the points documentation. 


Scott 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kamila Naxerova [mailto:knaxerova at chip.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:30 PM
To: Ochsner, Scott A
Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [BioC] Variations of plotting symbols

e.g. pch=25, bg="black", col="black"

Cheers,
Kamila

Ochsner, Scott A wrote:
> Dear BioC,
>
> I have five microarray datasets each with two levels.  I'm plotting a PCA figure and would like to avoid using color as page charges for color in the journal I wish to submit are expensive.
>
> Is there a way to turn the solid triangle symbol (pch=17) 180 degrees?  This would add enable me to use the upside down triangle (open and solid) as another symbol set. 
>
>   
>> sessionInfo()
>>     
> R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United 
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] affycoretools_1.12.0 annaffy_1.12.1       KEGG.db_2.2.0        gcrma_2.12.1         matchprobes_1.12.0   biomaRt_1.14.0      
>  [7] RCurl_0.9-3          GOstats_2.6.0        Category_2.6.0       RBGL_1.16.0          GO.db_2.2.0          graph_1.18.1        
> [13] limma_2.14.2         affy_1.18.1          preprocessCore_1.2.0 affyio_1.8.0         MLInterfaces_1.14.1  annotate_1.18.0     
> [19] xtable_1.5-2         AnnotationDbi_1.2.1  RSQLite_0.6-8        DBI_0.2-4            rda_1.0              rpart_3.1-41        
> [25] genefilter_1.20.0    survival_2.34-1      MASS_7.2-41          Biobase_2.0.1       
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] class_7.2-41    cluster_1.11.10 XML_1.95-2  
>
> Scott A. Ochsner, Ph.D.
> NURSA Bioinformatics
> Molecular and Cellular Biology
> Baylor College of Medicine
> Houston, TX. 77030
> phone: 713-798-6227
>
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