CollectionWithMetadata-class: Collection With Metadata

CollectionWithMetadata-classR Documentation

Collection With Metadata

Description

A class for working with numeric data 'collections' and associated metadata. Variable collections should represent a biologically or scientifically coherent concept measured over a consistent or comparable range of values. Examples include relative abundances of various genera, or relative expression levels of genes in a gene expression profile.

Slots

name

The name of the collection

data

A data.frame of collection values with variables as columns and records as rows

sampleMetadata

A SampleMetadata object of metadata about the records where records are rows and metadata variables as columns

recordIdColumn

The name of the column containing IDs for the records.

ancestorIdColumns

A character vector of column names representing parent entities of the recordIdColumn.

imputeZero

A logical indicating whether NA/ null values should be replaced with zeros.

removeEmptyRecordss

A logical indicating whether empty (all NA/ zero) records should be removed.


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