Extract Color Information From Ggplot2?
Using this dummy code saved in a file named foo.txt...
COG,station1,station2,station3,station4,station5
COG000Z,0.019393497,0.183122497,0.089911227,0.283250444,0.074110521
COG0002,0.044632051,0.019118032,0.034625785,0.069892277,0.034073709
COG0001,0.033066112,0,0,0,0
COG0004,0.115086472,0.098805295,0.148167492,0.040019101,0.043982814
COG0005,0.064613057,0.03924007,0.105262559,0.076839235,0.031070155
COG0006,0.079920475,0.188586049,0.123607421,0.27101229,0.274806929
COG0007,0.051727492,0.066311584,0.080655401,0.027024185,0.059156417
COG0008,0.126254841,0.108478559,0.139106704,0.056430812,0.099823028
I made a heatmap in ggplot2 with the accompanying code from following this answer on stackexchange.
> library(ggplot2)
> foo = read.table('foo.txt', header=T, sep=',')
> foomelt = melt(foo)
Using COG as id variables
> ggplot(foomelt, aes(x=COG, y=variable, fill=value)) + geom_tile() + scale_fill_gradient(low='white', high='steelblue')
It produces a really nice heatmap, but I'm really just after the color codes of each tile (basically the original foo but with color codes in place of each variable). Any idea how to go about this?
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Can I ask why you want to do that? the color codes are scaled between the hex code between 'white' and 'steelblue', which are both arbitrary colors in the plot.
Can I ask why you wish to do that? the colors in the heatmap are simply scaled to a hexcode between 'white' and 'steelblue', which are both arbitrary colors in the plot.
Eventually the colors will be transferred out of R for use in some JavaScript code for visualization purposes.
Cross-posted from StackOverflow (which is OK), but not a bioinformatics query (which is not) - closing.