R: Read SingleCellExperiment from tabular data

readSingleCellExperiment {scp}

R Documentation

Read SingleCellExperiment from tabular data

Description

Convert tabular data from a spreadsheet or a data.frame into a SingleCellExperiment object.

Usage

readSingleCellExperiment(table, ecol, fnames, ...)

Arguments

`table`	File or object holding the quantitative data. Can be either a `character(1)` with the path to a text-based spreadsheet (comma-separated values by default, but see `...`) or an object that can be coerced to a `data.frame`. It is advised not to encode characters as factors.
`ecol`	A `numeric` indicating the indices of the columns to be used as assay values. Can also be a `character` indicating the names of the columns. Caution must be taken if the column names are composed of special characters like `(` or `-` that will be converted to a `.` by the `read.csv` function. If `ecol` does not match, the error message will dislpay the column names as seen by the `read.csv` function.
`fnames`	An optional `character(1)` or `numeric(1)` indicating the column to be used as row names.
`...`	Further arguments that can be passed on to read.csv except `stringsAsFactors`, which is always `FALSE`.

Value

An instance of class SingleCellExperiment.

Note

The SingleCellExperiment class is built on top of the RangedSummarizedExperiment class. This means that some column names are forbidden in the rowData. Avoid using the following names: seqnames, ranges, strand, start, end, width, element

Author(s)

Laurent Gatto, Christophe Vanderaa

Examples

## Load a data.frame with PSM-level data
data("mqScpData")

## Create the QFeatures object
sce <- readSingleCellExperiment(mqScpData, 
                                grep("RI", colnames(mqScpData)))

[Package scp version 1.2.0 Index]