check_and_convert_expression_data {SPONGE} | R Documentation

## Checks if expression data is in matrix or ExpressionSet format and converts the latter to a standard matrix. Alternatively, a big.matrix descriptor object can be supplied to make use of shared memory between parallelized workers through the bigmemory package.

### Description

Checks if expression data is in matrix or ExpressionSet format and converts the latter to a standard matrix. Alternatively, a big.matrix descriptor object can be supplied to make use of shared memory between parallelized workers through the bigmemory package.

### Usage

    check_and_convert_expression_data(expr_data)

### Arguments

`expr_data` | expr_data as matrix or ExpressionSet

### Value

expr_data as matrix

### Examples

    ## Not run: check_and_convert_expression_data(gene_expr)

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