addGeneMetadata

addGeneMetadata

Description

adds gene metadata to the giotto object

Usage

addGeneMetadata(gobject, new_metadata, by_column = F, column_gene_ID = NULL)

Arguments

Argument	Description
gobject	giotto object
new_metadata	new metadata to use
by_column	merge metadata based on gene_ID column in fDataDT
column_gene_ID	column name of new metadata to use if by_column = TRUE

Details

You can add additional gene metadata in two manners:

1. Provide a data.table or data.frame with gene annotations in the same order as the gene_ID column in fDataDT(gobject)

2. Provide a data.table or data.frame with gene annotations and specificy which column contains the gene IDs, these gene IDs need to match with the gene_ID column in fDataDT(gobject)

Value

giotto object