validate_association {ClusterJudge} | R Documentation

## validates the associations between entities and attributes

### Description

verifies if the input structure has two columns, if there are no NAs or NULLs and if thre are no duplicated associations

### Usage

    validate_association(entity.attribute, message = TRUE)

### Arguments

`entity.attribute` | data frame or matrix with 2 columns The assumption is that first column represent some 'entities' like gene names or gene ids. And the second column represents 'attributes' of entities (for example Gene Ontology ID 'GO:0007260' which is 'tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT protein')
`message` | a logical. If set to TRUE will print a message in case of succesfull validation.

### Value

Returns TRUE and print "Validation OK!" message in case of scuccess. Otherwise stops with an explanatory message.

### Author(s)

Adrian Pasculescu

### References

Gibbons, F.D. and Roth F.P., (2002) Judging the Quality of Gene Expression-Based Clustering Methods Using Gene Annotation. Genome Research, vol. 12, pp1574-1581.

### Examples

    data(Yeast.GO.assocs)

    validate_association(Yeast.GO.assocs)

[Package ClusterJudge version 1.6.0 Index]