pool-methods: Pool replicates within groups to a single sample per group

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples

Description

The function sums up coverage, numCs and numTs values within each group so one representative sample for each group will be created in a new methylBase object

Usage

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  pool(obj,sample.ids)

Arguments

obj

methylBase object with two groups or more and each group should have multiple samples

sample.ids

a character vector of new sample.ids ex:c("test","control"), should follow the same order as unique treatment vector, and should be equal to the length of the unique treatment vector

Value

a methylBase object

Author(s)

Altuna Akalin

Examples

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library(methylKit)
data(methylKit)

# methylBase.obj has two groups, each group has two samples,
# the following function will pool the samples in each group
# so that each group will be represented by one pooled sample
pooled.methylBase=pool(methylBase.obj,sample.ids=c("test","control"))

vd4mmind/methylkit documentation built on May 3, 2019, 4:57 p.m.