getSampleData {h5vc} | R Documentation

## Reading and writing sample data from / to a tally file

### Description

These functions allow reading and writing of sample data to the HDF5-based tally files. The sample data is stored as group attribute.

### Usage

    getSampleData( filename, group )
    setSampleData( filename, group, sampleData, largeAttributes = FALSE, stringSize = 64 )

### Arguments

`filename` | The name of a tally file
`group` | The name of a group within that tally file, e.g. `/ExampleStudy/22`
`sampleData` | A `data.frame` with `k` rows (one for each sample) and columns `Type`, `Column` and (`SampleGroup` or `Patient`. Additional column will be added as well but are not required.)
`largeAttributes` | HDF5 limits the size of attributes to 64KB, if you have many samples setting this flag will write the attributes in a separate dataset instead. `getSampleData` is aware of this and automatically chooses the dataset-stored attributes if they are present
`stringSize` | Maximum length for string attributes (number of characters) - default of 64 characters should be fine for most cases; This has to be specified since we do not support variable length strings as of now.

### Details

The returned data.frame contains information about the sample ids, sample columns in the sample dimension of the dataset. The type of sample must be one of `c("Case","Control")` to be used with the provided SNV calling function. Additional relevant per-sample information may be stored here.

Note that the following columns are required in the sample data where the rows represent samples in the cohort:

`Sample`: the sample id of the corresponding sample

`Column`: the index within the genomic position dimension of the corresponding sample, be aware that `getSampleData` and `setSampleData` automatically add / remove `1` from this value since internally the tally files store the dimension 0-based whereas within R we count 1-based.

`Patient` the patient id of the corresponding sample

`Type` the type of sample

### Value

`sampledata` | A `data.frame` with `k` rows (one for each sample) and columns `Type`, `Column` and (`SampleGroup` or `Patient`).

### Author(s)

Paul Pyl

### Examples

      # loading library and example data
      library(h5vc)
      tallyFile <- system.file( "extdata", "example.tally.hfs5", package = "h5vcData" )
      sampleData <- getSampleData( tallyFile, "/ExampleStudy/16" )
      sampleData
      # modify  the sample data
      sampleData$AnotherColumn <- paste( sampleData$Patient, "Modified" )
      # write to tallyFile
      setSampleData( tallyFile, "/ExampleStudy/16", sampleData )
      # re-load and check if it worked
      sampleData <- getSampleData( tallyFile, "/ExampleStudy/16" )
      sampleData

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