Construct an ExperimentList object for the MultiAssayExperiment object slot.

Description

The ExperimentList class can contain several different types of data. The only requirements for an ExperimentList class are that the objects contained have the following set of methods: dim, [, rownames, colnames

Usage

ExperimentList(x)

Arguments

Value

A ExperimentList class object of experiment data

Examples

## Create an empty ExperimentList instance
ExperimentList()

## Create array matrix and AnnotatedDataFrame to create an ExpressionSet class
arraydat <- matrix(data = seq(101, length.out = 20), ncol = 4,
    dimnames = list(
        c("ENST00000294241", "ENST00000355076",
        "ENST00000383706","ENST00000234812", "ENST00000383323"),
        c("array1", "array2", "array3", "array4")
    ))

arraypdat <- as(data.frame(
    slope53 = rnorm(4),
    row.names = c("array1", "array2", "array3", "array4")),
    "AnnotatedDataFrame")

## ExpressionSet constructor
exprdat <- Biobase::ExpressionSet(assayData = arraydat, phenoData = arraypdat)

## Create a sample methylation dataset
methyldat <- matrix(data = seq(1, length.out = 25), ncol = 5,
    dimnames = list(
        c("ENST00000355076", "ENST00000383706",
          "ENST00000383323", "ENST00000234812", "ENST00000294241"),
        c("methyl1", "methyl2", "methyl3",
          "methyl4", "methyl5")
    ))

## Create a sample RNASeqGene dataset
rnadat <- matrix(
    data = sample(c(46851, 5, 19, 13, 2197, 507,
        84318, 126, 17, 21, 23979, 614), size = 20, replace = TRUE),
    ncol = 4,
    dimnames = list(
        c("XIST", "RPS4Y1", "KDM5D", "ENST00000383323", "ENST00000234812"),
        c("samparray1", "samparray2", "samparray3", "samparray4")
    ))

## Combine to a named list and call the ExperimentList constructor function
ExpList <- list(Affy = exprdat, Methyl450k = methyldat, RNASeqGene = rnadat)

## Use the ExperimentList constructor
myExperimentList <- ExperimentList(ExpList)