Do a boxplot among subtypes

A stripchart (jitter plot) of a biomarker and some categorical subtype is superimposed on top of the boxplot

Usage

doBoxplotAmongSubtypes(
  input.d,
  data.description,
  biomarker.var.name,
  biomarker.name,
  subtype.var.name,
  subtype.name,
  pch = 4,
  jitter = 0.1,
  digits = 2,
  ...
)

Arguments

input.d

input data.frame

data.description

boxplot title description

biomarker.var.name

biomarker variable name in input.d to graph on

biomarker.name

boxplot y-axis label

subtype.var.name

subtype variable name in input.d to graph on

subtype.name

boxplot x-axis label

pch

stripchart plot style

jitter

amount of jitter in stripchart

digits

number of digits to round to

...

additional arguments to boxplot

Value

a boxplot of biomarker values across different subtypes

Note

Expects subtype variable to be a factor. Also expects biomarker and subtype variable missing values to be NA

Author

Samuel Leung

Examples

doBoxplotAmongSubtypes(mtcars, "Boxplot of qsec vs. gear", "qsec", "QSEC",
"gear", "GEAR")