validate_association: validates the associations between entities and attributes

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

View source: R/validate_association.R

Description

verifies if the input structure has two columns, if there are no NAs or NULLs and if thre are no duplicated associations

Usage

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validate_association(entity.attribute, message = TRUE)

Arguments

entity.attribute

data frame or matrix with 2 columns The assumption is that first column represent some 'entities' like gene names or gene ids. And the second column represents 'attributes' of entities (for example Gene Ontology ID 'GO:0007260' which is 'tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT protein')

message

a logical. If set to TRUE will print a message in case of succesfull validation.

Value

Returns TRUE and print "Validation OK!" message in case of scuccess. Otherwise stops with an explanatory message.

Author(s)

Adrian Pasculescu

References

Gibbons, F.D. and Roth F.P., (2002) Judging the Quality of Gene Expression-Based Clustering Methods Using Gene Annotation. Genome Research, vol. 12, pp1574-1581.

Examples

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