Superheat R Package for Creating Extendable Heatmaps

An R package developed by Rebecca Barter at the University of California, Berkeley, for visualizing complex datasets. The package provides a flexible and customizable platform for creating heatmaps that can be extended with scatterplots, boxplots, and barplots. Its capabilities are demonstrated through three reproducible case studies using publicly available data.

Use Cases

• Visualizing large-scale biological data based on the package's suitability for bioinformatics mentioned in the description
• Enhancing exploratory data analysis by adding model results as boxplots to heatmaps
• Communicating correlation patterns by overlaying barplots on heatmap visualizations

Strengths

• Package is described as extremely flexible and customizable for complex data visualization
• Capabilities are demonstrated via three reproducible case studies based on public data

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

University of California, Berkeley