group-methods              package:xcms              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     A number of grouping (or alignment) methods exist in XCMS. 'group'
     is the generic method.

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  object: 'xcmsSet-class' object

  method: Method to use for grouping. See details.

     ...: Optional arguments to be passed along

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Different algorithms can be used by specifying them with the
     'method' argument. For example to use the density-based  approach
     described by Smith et al (2006) one would use: 'group(object,
     method="density")'. This is also the default.

     Further arguments given by '...' are passed through to the
     function implementing the 'method'. 

     A character vector of _nicknames_ for the  algorithms available is
     returned by  'getOption("BioC")$xcms$group.methods'. If the
     nickname of a method is called "mzClust", the help page for that
     specific method can be accessed with '?group.mzClust'.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An 'xcmsSet' object with peak group assignments and statistics.

_M_e_t_h_o_d_s:


     _o_b_j_e_c_t = "_x_c_m_s_S_e_t" ' group(object, ...) '


_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'group.density' 'group.mzClust' 'xcmsSet-class',

