load_experiments: Loading of experiments in a list

View source: R/Metadatacreation.R

load_experimentsR Documentation

Loading of experiments in a list

Description

Loading data in R- If the data files are already on your computer, you can use this step.

Usage

load_experiments(directory, names = dir(directory), item.SimpleList = "rnaseq")

Arguments

directory

A character string that is the path to the directory where all the experiments to load, and not any other file, are stored in Rdata format.

item.SimpleList

If the experiments are wrapped in a SimpleList object, this is the accessor (character string or integer) of the actual experiment object within this SimpleList. The experiment is unwrapped from this SimpleList.

Details

The experiment should be either bulk-RNAseq(Summarized experiment) or microarray(ExpressionSet). WARNING: Different types of experiment should not be processed together. For example, one Summarized experiment with expressionSet experiment, otherwise it will cause an error in further steps.

Value

A list of the loaded experiments.


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