addGroupInfo: Safely add group info

In FindMyFriends: Microbial Comparative Genomics in R

Description

This method allows for adding of group metadata by specifying the name of the metadata and the gene groups it should be added to. It protects the user from overwriting information that is derived from the data, and ensures the proper formatting. Should be prefered to groupInfo<- for all but the simplest cases.

Usage

addGroupInfo(object, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'pgVirtual'
addGroupInfo(object, info, key)

Arguments

object	A pgVirtual subclass
...	parameters passed on.
info	A data.frame with information to add
key	Either an integer vector with the index of each gene group the rows in info corresponds to, or the name of the column in info that holds the indexes.

Value

An object of the same class as object with the new gene group information.

Methods (by class)

• pgVirtual: Add gene group info safely for all pgVirtual subclasses

See Also

Other Metadata: addOrgInfo, groupInfo, orgInfo

Examples

testPG <- .loadPgExample(withGroups=TRUE)

# Create some info
info <- data.frame(nickname=c('Tessie', 'Johnny'), index=c(4, 500))

# Add it to the object
testPG <- addGroupInfo(testPG, info=info, key='index')

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