Clarion: Clarion R6-class definition

In loosolab/wilson: Web-Based Interactive Omics Visualization

Description

Use this to create a clarion object. This object is used by all top-level wilson modules.

Constructor

Clarion$new(header = NULL, metadata, data, validate = TRUE)

Constructor Arguments

Variable	Return
header	A named list. Defaults to NULL.
metadata	Clarion metadata in form of a data.table.
data	Data.table according to metadata.
validate	Logical value to validate on initialization. Defaults to TRUE.

Public fields

header

List of global information regarding the whole experiment.

metadata

Data.table with additional information for each column.

data

Data.table containing experiment result data.

Methods

Public methods

• Clarion$get_id()

• Clarion$get_name()

• Clarion$get_delimiter()

• Clarion$is_delimited()

• Clarion$get_factors()

• Clarion$get_level()

• Clarion$get_label()

• Clarion$validate()

• Clarion$new()

• Clarion$write()

• Clarion$clone()

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Method get_id()

Returns name of unique identifier column. Assumes first feature to be unique if not specified.

Usage

Clarion$get_id()

Returns

Name of the id column.

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Method get_name()

Returns name of name column. If not specified return unique Id.

Usage

Clarion$get_name()

Returns

Name of the name column.

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Method get_delimiter()

Return delimiter used within multi-value fields (no delimiter = NULL).

Usage

Clarion$get_delimiter()

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Method is_delimited()

Logical whether the given column name is delimited.

Usage

Clarion$is_delimited(x)

Arguments

x

Name of the column.

Returns

boolean

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Method get_factors()

Get factors to all columns.

Usage

Clarion$get_factors()

Details

Named factors (e.g. factor1="name") will be cropped to their name.

Returns

Returns a data.table columns: key and factor(s) if any.

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Method get_level()

Get level(s) to given column name(s).

Usage

Clarion$get_level(column)

Arguments

column

One or more column name(s).

Returns

Provide a vector of levels to the given columnnames in column. Returns NA for missing columns and character(0) if column = NULL.

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Method get_label()

Get label(s) to given column name(s).

Usage

Clarion$get_label(column = NULL, sub_label = TRUE, sep = " ")

Arguments

column

One or more column name(s).

sub_label

Whether the sub_label should be included.

sep

Separator between label and sub_label.

Details

If a column does not have a label the key is returned.

Returns

Provides a vector of labels (+ sub_label) to the given columnnames in column. Returns NA for missing columns and all labels if column = NULL.

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Method validate()

Check the object for inconsistencies.

Usage

Clarion$validate(solve = TRUE)

Arguments

solve

For solve = TRUE try to resolve some warnings.

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Method new()

Initialize a new clarion object.

Usage

Clarion$new(header = NULL, metadata, data, validate = TRUE)

Arguments

header

A named list. Defaults to NULL.

metadata

Clarion metadata in form of a data.table.

data

Data.table according to metadata.

validate

Logical value to validate on initialization. Defaults to TRUE.

Returns

Clarion object.

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Method write()

Save the object as a clarion file.

Usage

Clarion$write(file)

Arguments

file

Filename for the file to be written.

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

Clarion$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

## Not run: 
# initializing a new object
object <- Clarion$new(header, metadata, data, validate = TRUE)

# create a deep copy
object_copy <- object$clone(deep = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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