fold_change: Fold change analysis
In specmine: Metabolomics and Spectral Data Analysis and Mining

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Perform fold change analysis on the dataset.

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fold_change(dataset, metadata.var, ref.value, 
threshold.min.fc = NULL, write.file = FALSE, 
file.out = "fold_change.csv")

`dataset`	list representing the dataset from a metabolomics experiment.
`metadata.var`	metadata to use to calculate the fold change.
`ref.value`	class name to indicate the initial value.
`threshold.min.fc`	minimum threshold of the fold change value.
`write.file`	boolean value to write or not a file with the results.
`file.out`	name of the file.

Table of results with fold change and log2 of fold change.

  ## Example of fold change
  library(specmine.datasets)
  data(cachexia)
  fold.change.results = fold_change(cachexia, "Muscle.loss", 
			"control", write.file = FALSE)