dot-mergeIdAspect: Merge two aspects (data.frames)

In frankkramer-lab/RCX: R package implementing the Cytoscape Exchange (CX) format

Merge two aspects (data.frames)

Description

Merges two aspects, that are both data.frames and of the same aspect class. If the idCol contains duplicates new ids (for secondAspect) are created (ids of firstAspect are kept), unless it is spezified otherwise by saveOldIds.

Usage

.mergeIdAspect(
  firstAspect,
  secondAspect,
  idCol,
  uniqCols,
  stopOnDuplicates = FALSE,
  saveOldIds = TRUE,
  .log = c()
)

Arguments

firstAspect	data.frame; first aspect.
secondAspect	data.frame; second aspect.
idCol	character; name of the column to merge on.
uniqCols	character; name of the column to be checked for uniqueness.
stopOnDuplicates	boolean (default=FALSE); whether to stop, if duplicates in uniqCols column are found.
saveOldIds	boolean (default=TRUE); whether to keep the IDs from secondAspect, if duplicates in uniqCols column are found.
.log	character (optional); name of the calling function used in logging

Value

data.frame of the merged aspects.

Note

The two aspects must be the same type of aspect (same aspect class)!

Internal function only for convenience

See Also

.mergeAttributesAspect, .createAttributeAspect

Examples

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frankkramer-lab/RCX documentation built on Feb. 4, 2023, 5:12 p.m.