redefineTypeByName: Retype neurons according to a grep pattern to be run on names
In jayaraman-lab/neuprintrExtra: Extra functions to analyze neuprint EM datasets

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

Retype neurons according to a grep pattern to be run on names

redefineTypeByName(
  connections,
  typeList = NULL,
  pattern = NULL,
  sets = NULL,
  nameModifiers,
  postfix = c("raw", "to", "from"),
  redefinePartners = FALSE,
  perl = FALSE
)

`connections`	Connectivity table or neuronBag to modify
`typeList`	: which types to lateralize (by default all the neurons which names contains L or R)
`pattern`	A grep pattern to be run to match a "name" column
`sets`	List of neuron name sets. To be used in place of pattern.
`nameModifiers`	A vector of strings of lenght 2 if `pattern` is used : first string is appended for matched types, second to the absence of matches (for types in `typeList`), or of the same lenght as sets: postfixes to be appended to the type name of all neurons whose name is in the corresponding set
`postfix`	One of "raw, "to" or "from". Specify if type (and name) columns in table to be modified are postfixed with to and from or nothing
`redefinePartners`	If table is a neuronBag, should the partners also be retyped?
`perl`	Should the grep match use perl rules?

pattern, typeList and perl are used if pattern is used. Alternatively sets allow to retype according to an arbitrary number of subtypes

## Not run: 
PFLNames <- getTypesTable(c("PFL1","PFL2","PFL3"))

## Rename only PFL3 according to their strange output pattern
PFLNames3 <- redefineTypeByName(PFLNames,typeList = c("PFL3"),pattern = "(^.*_L(?!.*irreg))|(^.*_R.*irreg)",perl=TRUE,nameModifiers = c("_L*","_R*"))

## End(Not run)