First…here is the finished plot!
Keep reading if you want to make this plot yourself in R!
Biologists love heatmaps, like they REALLY REALLY like heatmaps!! When I was in graduate school, I think my number one google search was “how do I make a heatmap in R”. There are many fantastic tutorials out there that really helped me…and my goal is to create another R heatmap tutorial for the newest of R users.