R/setID.R

In jwist/fusion: Fusion: Objects class definitions for metabolic profiling

#' S4 method set sampleID from dataElement
#'
#' @param da dataElement
#' @param ID a vector of IDs
#' @param using the name of the column used as UID
#' @return void
#'
#' @export
#'
setGeneric("setID", function(da, ID, using = "sampleID") {
  standardGeneric("setID")
})

#' S4 method set sampleID from dataElement
#'
#' @param da dataElement
#' @param ID a vector of IDs
#' @param using the name of the column used as UID
#' @return void
#'
#' @export
#'
setMethod("setID",
          c(da = "dataElement"),
          function(da, ID, using = "sampleID") {
            if (anyDuplicated(ID)) {
              stop(crayon::red("nothing done: new ids are not unique"))
            } else {
              for (i in 1:length(da@obsDescr)) {
                da@obsDescr[[i]][using] <- ID
              }
            }
            return(da)
          }
)