Add metadata to a TIRTLseqDataSet object

This function adds a metadata data frame, obj$meta, to the input TIRTLseqDataSet object based on the sample names. This can be useful when the metadata was not specified when the initial object was loaded.

Usage

add_metadata(obj, meta_columns = NULL, sep = "_")

Arguments

obj

a TIRTLseqDataSet object

meta_columns

(optional) a vector of names for metadata for each field in the sample names.

sep

(optional) the character separating fields in the sample names of the data For example c("marker", "timepoint", "donor") for samples named something like "cd8_timepoint2_donor1".

Value

a TIRTLseqDataSet object with added metadata

See also

Other data_wrangling: filter_dataset(), reorder_samples()