getMetaData: Import meta data

In stevehoang/assayr: Tools for analyzing biochemical assay data.

Description

Reads meta data from sample databases on Box via boxr::box_read_excel()

Usage

getMetaData(study_id, fully_parse = TRUE)

Arguments

study_id	Character vector in the standard study name format (i.e. "RNO0101-1" or "RNO0101").
fully_parse	Logical indicating whether to try and filter the database to a specific run; Set FALSE to troubleshoot.

Value

A data frame containing the meta information from a given study or a large data frame with all the meta information from all studies in a program.

Examples

## Requires boxR credentials
# returns only meta data from study RNO0738
meta <- getMetaData("RNO0738")
# return meta data from multiple studies
meta <- getMetaData(c("HEM0100-5", "HEM0100-6"))

# returns all studies' meta data from RNO07 project
all_meta <- getMetaData("RNO0738", fully_parse = F)

stevehoang/assayr documentation built on May 24, 2019, 7:20 a.m.