GEO_GetSampleInfo: The GEO_GetSampleInfo function

View source: R/GEO_Download_Preprocess.R

GEO_GetSampleInfoR Documentation

The GEO_GetSampleInfo function

Description

auxiliary function to generate a sample information dataframe that indicates which study group each sample belongs to.

Usage

GEO_GetSampleInfo(METdirectories, group.column, targetDirectory = ".")

Arguments

METdirectories

list of the file paths to the downloaded DNA methylation data, which can be the output from the GEO_Download_DNAMethylation function.

group.column

character string indicating the column in the phenotypic data that defines the study group of each sample. The values in this column will be used to split the experiment and the control group.

targetDirectory

file path to save the output. Default: '.' (current directory)

Value

a dataframe with two columns: a 'primary' column indicating the actual sample names, a 'sample.type' column indicating the study group for each sample.


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