import.CLUSTER: Importation of cell cluster profiles from a tab separated...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Description

Imports one or several cell cluster profiles from a tab separated file into a CLUSTER object. In this case, the marker expressions of each cluster are assumed to be normally distributed.

Usage

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import.CLUSTER(file, exclude = NULL)

Arguments

file

a character specifying the location of a tab separated file to import

exclude

a character vector containing the marker names to be excluded in the import procedure

Details

Tab separated file to import must contain for each cell cluster profile the means and the standard deviations of the expression markers and must be formatted as the following:
* each row must represent a cell cluster profile;
* each column must represent a marker;
* each cell in the table must contain the marker expression means and the standard deviations for a given cell cluster separated by a semicolon;
The first column must contain the cell cluster names and the first row must contain the marker names.

It is to note that 'CLUSTER' objects constructed via the 'import.CLUSTER()' function do not contain the densities of expression markers (please refer to the documentation of the 'compare()' function).

Value

a S4 object of class CLUSTER


tchitchek-lab/CytoCompare documentation built on May 31, 2019, 7:29 a.m.