build.subtable: Build sub-table for the entries with multiple values

In RbioRXN: Process Rhea, KEGG, MetaCyc, Unipathway Biochemical Reaction Data

Description

When you download biochemical reaction data with functions such as get.kegg.all(), get.metacyc.all(), get.rhea.all(), etc, some entries have multiple values such as "synonyms". This function allows to build sub-table that separates multiple values in different rows.

Usage

build.subtable(table, column1, column2, separator = "///")

Arguments

table	data.frame object where multiple entries exist
column1	It is usually first column name for unique ID
column2	The column name where the column contains multiple values (e.g., synonyms)
separator	Separator symbol (default is "///")

Value

data.frame() object

Author(s)

Byoungnam Min <[e-mail]>, Byeonghyuk Park, Kyoung Heon Kim and In-Geol Choi

Examples

data(example) # load example data

chebi = example$chebi # sample ChEBI
chebi.sub = build.subtable(table = chebi, column1 = "chebi", column2 = "synonyms", separator="///")
head(chebi.sub)

RbioRXN documentation built on May 29, 2017, 10:56 a.m.