Dear Peter, Thanks for your reply.I am familiar with this solution but I was trying to make the plot user friendly.I have seen some plots,in which if we keep a cursor on any point of plot,it will automatically shows you the row names.Is it possible? I did not find anything related to this.
Thanking you, Warm Regards Vikas Bansal Msc Bioinformatics Kings College London ________________________________________ From: Peter Alspach [peter.alsp...@plantandfood.co.nz] Sent: 31 October 2011 22:08 To: Bansal, Vikas; r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: Plot two matrices and keeping the record of row names Tena koe Vikas If I understand you correctly, you could generate a character matrix the elements of which are the row.names and col.names of x1 pasted together (perhaps with : as a separator). Then the upper.tri of this will give you the associations. HTH ... Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Bansal, Vikas > Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2011 10:46 a.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Plot two matrices and keeping the record of row names > > > > Dear all, > I am having this trouble and posted this query before.Can you please > help me. > I have two matrices- x1 and y1 with same row names and column > names(actually the names of the patients). > > x1 > > a b c d e > a 1.0000000 0.4730679 0.6226994 0.6036036 0.6433333 > b 0.4730679 1.0000000 0.6227273 0.6303855 0.5730858 > c 0.6226994 0.6227273 1.0000000 0.7290503 0.6900585 > d 0.6036036 0.6303855 0.7290503 1.0000000 0.7096774 > e 0.6433333 0.5730858 0.6900585 0.7096774 1.0000000 > > > y1 > <UrlBlockedError.aspx> > > a b c d e > a 1.0000000 0.00 0.5000000 0.00 0.3333333 > b 0.0000000 1.00 0.0000000 0.25 0.0000000 > c 0.5000000 0.00 1.0000000 0.00 0.1666667 > d 0.0000000 0.25 0.0000000 1.00 0.0000000 > e 0.3333333 0.00 0.1666667 0.00 1.0000000 > > > > basically these two matrices are the similarity matrices between the > patients. x1 is genotypically and y1 is phenotypically. > Now I want to generate a plot to see which patients have high > similarity genotypically as well as phenotypically. So I am using > > plot(x1[upper.tri(x1)],y1[upper.tri(y1)]) #taking only > the upper triangle of matrices as other half is same. > > The plot is coming fine.But I am loosing the row names,therefore I have > no idea which patients are on the top right corner of the plot. > > Can you please help me.I will be very thankful to you. > > > Thanking you, > Warm Regards > Vikas Bansal > Msc Bioinformatics > Kings College London > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be ...{{dropped:15}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.