ComplexHeatmap - Heatmap function within a for loop
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An De Bondt ▴ 40
@an-de-bondt-3329
Last seen 8.2 years ago

Dear useRs,

Below a small chunk of code to illustrate an issue with generating heatmaps using the Heatmap function within the ComplexHeatmap package.

# this works fine, a pdf file gets generated and can be opened:

       dat <- matrix(rnorm(200), 10)
       pdf("heatmap.pdf", width = 15, height = 5)
       
Heatmap(dat)
       dev.off()

# a for loop around also generates files (from the code below just 1)

for (i in 1){
       dat <- matrix(rnorm(200), 10)
       pdf(paste0("heatmap", i, ".pdf"), width = 15, height = 5)
       Heatmap(dat)
       dev.off()
}

# However, trying to open the file results in this error message in Acrobar reader (Version 10.1.8): “The file cannot be opened because it has no pages”

# a for loop around the heatmap.2 function from the gplots library works fine (but adjusting the plot is less flexible)

library(gplots)
for (i in 1)
 
       dat <- matrix(rnorm(200), 10)
       pdf(paste0("heatmap", i, ".pdf"), width = 15, height = 5)
       heatmap.2(dat)
       dev.off()
}

It would be very nice if someone knows a work around.
Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards,
An

 

 

 

>sessionInfo()

R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)

Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

 

locale:

[1] C

 

attached base packages:

[1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods 

[8] base    

 

other attached packages:

[1] gplots_2.17.0        ComplexHeatmap_1.6.0 rj_2.0.4-2         

 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

[1] rj.gd_2.0.0-1       circlize_0.3.4      dendextend_1.1.8  

 [4] gtools_3.5.0        bitops_1.0-6        magrittr_1.5      

 [7] KernSmooth_2.23-15  GlobalOptions_0.0.8 gdata_2.17.0      

[10] whisker_0.3-2       GetoptLong_0.1.1    RColorBrewer_1.1-2

[13] rjson_0.2.15        tools_3.2.2         colorspace_1.2-6  

[16] caTools_1.17.1      shape_1.4.2       

 

 

 

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@james-w-macdonald-5106
Last seen 15 minutes ago
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The ComplexHeatmap package uses grid graphics, and it is often the case that you need to print your Heatmap output for it to show up in the pdf.

for (i in 1){
       dat <- matrix(rnorm(200), 10)
       pdf(paste0("heatmap", i, ".pdf"), width = 15, height = 5)
       print(Heatmap(dat))
       dev.off()
}
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Great, thanks a lot, that works indeed!

Best regards,
An

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I'm trying to save list of heatmaps after doing this

hm_lst<-cmplx_ht(list_of_files,metadata) 

The to save I tried something like this

lapply(1: length(hm_lst), function(i){
  ggsave(plot = hm_lst[[i]], 
         filename = paste(names(hm_lst)[i], ".pdf"), 
         width = 15)
})

The error is this

 Error: $ operator not defined for this S4 class 

Although the hm_list class is list bt still im not able to save it. Any suggestion what Im doing grossly wrong

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What is hm_list? I would not use ggsave() to save the heatmaps. Can you directly use:

pdf(...)
draw(ht). # or print(ht)
dev.off()
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yes it worked

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