downsampleCounts: Downsample read counts

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

View source: R/sim.R

Description

This function downsamples the library sizes of a read counts table to the lowest library size, according to the methdology used in (Soneson and Delorenzi, BMC Bioinformatics, 2013).

Usage

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Arguments

counts

the read counts table which is subjected to downsampling.

Details

The downsampling process involves random sampling. For guaranteed reproducibility, be sure to use set.seed before downsampling. By default, when the metaseqR2 package is loaded, the seed is set to 42.

Value

The downsampled counts matrix.

Author(s)

Panagiotis Moulos

Examples

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dataMatrix <- metaseqR2:::exampleCountData(5000)
D <- downsampleCounts(dataMatrix)

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