addGeneSetMetadata: Add metadata at the geneset level.

In lianos/sparrow: Take command of set enrichment analyses through a unified interface

Add metadata at the geneset level.

Description

This function adds/updates columns entries in the geneSets(gdb) table. If there already are defined meta values for the columns of meta in x, these will be updated with the values in meta.

Usage

addGeneSetMetadata(x, meta, ...)

Arguments

x	a GeneSetDb object
meta	a data.frame-like object with "collection", "name", and an arbitrary amount of columns to add as metadata for the genesets.
...	not used yet

Details

TODO: should this be a setReplaceMethod, Issue #13 (?) https://github.com/lianos/multiGSEA/issues/13

Value

the updated GeneSetDb object x.

Examples

gdb <- exampleGeneSetDb()
meta.info <- transform(
  geneSets(gdb)[, c("collection", "name")],
  someinfo = sample(c("one", "two"), nrow(gdb), replace = TRUE))
gdb <- addGeneSetMetadata(gdb, meta.info)

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