geom_point, indicate data points outside plot
On this plot, data points that are outside the limits of the plot are pointed to using triangles:
https://i.imgur.com/ScTCGMw.png from http://www.bioconductor.org/help/workflows/rnaseqGene/#ma-plot
Is it possible to do something similar using ggplot2 (geom_point)?
Thank you.
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I'm guessing your example data looks something like:
xs <- data.frame(aveCPM = 1:6, logFC = c(0.5, 10, -0.2, 0.1, -0.4, -2))
Then you can basically do this (you'll presumably want to drop the legend and fix the colours):
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
xs %>%
dplyr::mutate(
out_of_bounds = abs(logFC) > 3,
logFC = ifelse(out_of_bounds, 3 * sign(logFC), logFC)
) %>%
ggplot(aes(x = aveCPM, y = logFC, shape = out_of_bounds)) +
geom_point() +
ylim(-3, 3)
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