Add metadata at the geneset level. — addGeneSetMetadata • sparrow

This function adds/updates columns entries in the geneSets(gdb) table. If there already are defined meta values for the columns of meta in x, these will be updated with the values in meta.

addGeneSetMetadata(x, meta, ...)

Arguments

x: a GeneSetDb object
meta: a data.frame-like object with "collection", "name", and an arbitrary amount of columns to add as metadata for the genesets.
...: not used yet

Value

the updated GeneSetDb object x.

Details

TODO: should this be a setReplaceMethod, Issue #13 (?) https://github.com/lianos/multiGSEA/issues/13

Examples

gdb <- exampleGeneSetDb()
meta.info <- transform(
  geneSets(gdb)[, c("collection", "name")],
  someinfo = sample(c("one", "two"), nrow(gdb), replace = TRUE))
gdb <- addGeneSetMetadata(gdb, meta.info)