as.EAVtable: Convert a 'pData' data.frame to a melted EAV table

In facileverse/FacileData: A fluent API for accessing multi-assay high-throughput genomics data

Convert a pData data.frame to a melted EAV table

Description

Transforms a wide pData data.frame into a melted EAV table for use in a FacileDataSet. This function will also produce the list-of-list encodings that are generated from eav_metadata_create() to do its thing as an attribute of the returned object.

Usage

as.EAVtable(
  x,
  ignore = c("dataset", "sample_id"),
  covariate_def = list(),
  na.rm = TRUE
)

Arguments

x	a wide pData data.frame
covariate_def	passed to eav_metadata_create() that is used to override default covariate definitions extracted from the columns of x

Details

If you want to provide custom definitions for the covariates in the EAVtable that are different than the ones generated in eav_metadata_create(), then provie that definition list in the covariate_def parameter.

Value

a melted EAV table from x

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