Hi I am trying to do some data analysis using R and Bioconductor. I have a function to read my data called "ReadAffyData" and a function to plot the data called "preqc". I want to know if there is any way I can extract information (read: Data) from the ReadAffyData function into preqc in order to produce plots? I have not completely understood the inheritance in R and I am getting errors similar to the one below. I am new to R and could do with any help in this aspect!
ReadAffyData <- function( filename ) { require(affy) require(annotate) Cov <- read.table( filename, sep="\t", header=1, quote="", comment="" ) if( ! all( c( "Filename", "Label", "Repl", "Trt" ) %in% colnames( Cov ) ) ) { stop( "Missing mandatory column" ) } Cov <- Cov[order(Cov$Trt),] i <- table(Cov$Trt) Cov$Repl <- unlist( lapply( i, function( j ) 1:j ) ) Cov$Label <- paste( as.character( Cov$Trt ), Cov$Repl, sep=":" ) rownames(Cov) <- as.character(Cov$Label) tmp1 <- colnames( Cov ) tmp2 <- rep( "", length( Cov ) ) for( i in 1:length( tmp2 ) ) { tmp2[i] <- paste( sort( unique( as.character( Cov[,i] ) ) ), collapse="/" ) } labelDescription <- data.frame( labelDescription=tmp2 ) rownames( labelDescription ) <- tmp1 tmp <- new( "AnnotatedDataFrame", data=Cov, varMetadata=labelDescription) Data <- ReadAffy( sampleNames=as.character( Cov$Label ),phenoData=tmp, verbose=TRUE ) } preQC <- function(name){ ReadAffyData(name) plotDensity( log2( pm( Data ) ), xlab="Log2( Intensity )", ylab="Density", main="Raw(PM)") } preQC("cov.txt") 1 reading C:/CEL/GSM311471.CEL ...instantiating an AffyBatch (intensity a 506944x24 matrix)...done. Reading in : C:/CEL/GSM311471.CEL Reading in : C:/CEL/GSM311472.CEL Reading in : C:/CEL/GSM311473.CEL Reading in : C:/CEL/GSM311474.CEL Reading in : C:/CEL/GSM311475.CEL . . . Error in pm(Data) : error in evaluating the argument 'object' in selecting a method for function 'pm': Error: object 'Data' not found sessionInf() R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_India.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_India.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_India.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_India.1252 attached base packages: [1] parallel stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] annotate_1.38.0 AnnotationDbi_1.22.6 affy_1.38.1 Biobase_2.20.0 BiocGenerics_0.6.0 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] affyio_1.28.0 BiocInstaller_1.10.1 DBI_0.2-7 IRanges_1.18.1 preprocessCore_1.22.0 [6] RSQLite_0.11.4 stats4_3.0.1 tools_3.0.1 XML_3.96-1.1 xtable_1.7-1 [11] zlibbioc_1.6.0 Thanking you, Ipsitha Graduate Student 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.