export_txt: Export mSet object to separate text files

In zhuchcn/Metabase: Data container, handling, and visualization for high through-put quantitative experiment data.

Description

This function exports a mSet-class object into separate text files (i.e. csv, tsv and txt).

Usage

export_txt(object, path, prefix, sep = "\t", quote = FALSE,
  sample_names_head = "Sample name",
  feature_names_head = "Metabolite name")

Arguments

object	An object that inherits from the mSet-class
path	A string. Must be an exist directory to save the text files.
prefix	A string to be prepend to the output file names. If is missing, nothing will be prepended.
sep	Can be either tab, comma, or any separater.
quote	A logical value (TRUE or FALSE) whether add quotes to each column. See write.table
sample_names_head	A string. The name of the column for sample names.
feature_names_head	A string. The name of the column for feature names.

Author(s)

Chenghao Zhu

Examples

data(lipid)
dir.create("~/lipid-data")
export_txt(lipid, "~/lipid-data")
export_txt(lipid, "~/lipid-data", prefix = "lipid", sep = ",")

zhuchcn/Metabase documentation built on July 23, 2019, 1:36 p.m.