patternToString: Function to convert rows of a matrix to strings
In MAMA: Meta-Analysis of MicroArray

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

Function takes a matrix and converts rows of it to strings - One string per row.

1	patternToString(X.discret)

X.discret

Matrix

Originally part of MAP-Matches implementation

Matrix with same number of rows as input, but with rows converted to strings.

Code provided by Xinan Yang <xnyang@seu.edu.cn>

Yang, X., Bentink, S. a Spang, R. 2005, Detecting Common Gene Expression Patterns in Multiple Cancer Outcome Entities, Biomedical Microdevices, vol.7:3

A<-matrix(c(0,1,0,0,1,1), ncol=4, nrow=5)
patternToString(A)
#another example
uni<-c("0101","1100","0011","0100")
A<-patternmatrix(uni,3)
patternToString(A)