moimerge: Merges two molecular datasets.
In MLMOI: Estimating Frequencies, Prevalence and Multiplicity of Infection

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Warnings See Also Examples

The function is designed to merge two datasets from separate Excel files. The data in each Excel file is placed in the first worksheet.

moimerge(
  file1,
  file2,
  nummtd1,
  nummtd2,
  keepmtd = FALSE,
  export = NULL,
  keepwarnings = NULL
)

`file1`	string; specifying the path of the first dataset.
`file2`	string; specifying the path of the second dataset.
`nummtd1`	numeric; number of metadata columns (see `moimport()`) in the first file (default as `0`).
`nummtd2`	numeric; number of metadata columns (see `moimport()`) in the second file (default as `0`).
`keepmtd`	logical; determining whether metadata (e.g., date) should be retained (default as `TRUE`).
`export`	string; the path where the data is stored.
`keepwarnings`	string; the path where the warnings are stored.

The two datasets should be already in standard format (see moimport()). The datasets are placed in the first worksheet of the two different Excel files. Notice that marker labels (=column labels) need to be unique.

The output is a dataset in standard format which constitutes of an assembly of the input datasets.

Warnings are generated if potential inconsistencies are detected. E.g., if the same sample occurs in both datasets and have contradicting metadata entries. The function only prints the first 50 warnings. If the number of warnings are more than 50, the user is recommended to set the argument keepwarnings, in order to save the warnings in an Excel file.

To import and transform data into standard format, please see the function moimport().

#The datasets 'testDatamerge1.xlsx' and 'testDatamerge1.xlsx' are already in standard format:

infile1 <- system.file("extdata", "testDatamerge1.xlsx", package = "MLMOI")
infile2 <- system.file("extdata", "testDatamerge2.xlsx", package = "MLMOI")
outfile <- moimerge(infile1, infile2, nummtd1 = 1, nummtd2 = 2, keepmtd = TRUE)