Computational biology and genomics
Interactive plots, as the name suggests, are plots that users can interact with. In my last post, I mentioned that for interactive heatmaps I use the d3heatmap package. To get started with this post, I’ll create the same heatmap as my last post but this time using the d3heatmap package.
For a while, heatmap.2() from the gplots package was my function of choice for creating heatmaps in R. Then I discovered the superheat package, which attracted me because of the side plots. However, shortly afterwards I discovered pheatmap and I have been mainly using it for all my heatmaps (except when I need to interact…