Extract outcome from selectVar

When plotting a PLS-DA object with plotLoadings, the genes are colored according to the outcome of interest. This is a very interesting information, but when I extract the values with selectVar, I can’t find a way of also getting the group of interest.

Is there a way of getting this information?

Using the below code as an example:

suppressMessages(library(mixOmics))

data(srbct)
X <- srbct$gene
Y <- srbct$class

model <- plsda(X, Y)
l <- plotLoadings(model, contrib = "max")

head(l)
#>              EWS       BL        NB        RMS Contrib.EWS Contrib.BL
#> g937  -0.5603682 1.347079 0.8186230 -0.3855818       FALSE       TRUE
#> g1894 -0.5572560 1.112754 0.9372550 -0.3666102       FALSE       TRUE
#> g74   -0.4260267 1.841357 0.3642796 -0.4651797       FALSE       TRUE
#> g1932 -0.3446706 1.467506 0.6792611 -0.5981877       FALSE       TRUE
#> g1884 -0.3383005 2.007751 0.2094040 -0.5396972       FALSE       TRUE
#> g571  -0.4856335 1.016801 0.9521337 -0.4195219       FALSE       TRUE
#>       Contrib.NB Contrib.RMS Contrib GroupContrib   color importance
#> g937       FALSE       FALSE   FALSE           BL #F68B33 0.05769917
#> g1894      FALSE       FALSE   FALSE           BL #F68B33 0.05561153
#> g74        FALSE       FALSE   FALSE           BL #F68B33 0.05506304
#> g1932      FALSE       FALSE   FALSE           BL #F68B33 0.05406453
#> g1884      FALSE       FALSE   FALSE           BL #F68B33 0.05360364
#> g571       FALSE       FALSE   FALSE           BL #F68B33 0.05301618

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Therefore, rather than using selectVar() just take the output of plotLoadings() directly! You can find what you’re after in the GroupContrib column of the output.

Hope this helped

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That’s was It, thank you very much!!

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