duplicateRemover:
Remove duplicates in a named vector of phenotypes
Description
This function gets rid of the duplicates in a vector of phenotypes with
gene identifiers as names. It is used to prepare the named vector of
phenotypes for the over-representation and enrichment analysis.
Usage
duplicateRemover(geneList, method = "max")
Arguments
geneList
a single named numeric or integer vector with gene identifiers as names
method
a single character value specifying the method to remove the duplicates
(should the minimum, maximum or average observation for a same construct
be kept). The current version provides "min" (minimum), "max" (maximum),
"average" and "fc.avg" (fold change average). The minimum and maximum
should be understood in terms of absolute values (i.e. min/max effect,
no matter the sign). The fold change average method converts the fold
changes to ratios, averages them and converts the average back to a
fold change.
Value
a named vector of phenotypes with duplicates removed