WGCNA (version 1.43)

multiData: Create a multiData structure.

Description

This function creates a multiData structure by storing its input arguments as the 'data' components.

Usage

multiData(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments to be stored in the multiData structure.

Value

• The resulting multiData structure.

Details

A multiData structure is intended to store (the same type of) data for multiple, possibly independent, realizations (for example, expression data for several independent experiments). It is a list where each component corresponds to an (independent) data set. Each component is in turn a list that can hold various types of information but must have a data component. In a "strict" multiData structure, the data components are required to each be a matrix or a data frame and have the same number of columns. In a "loose" multiData structure, the data components can be anything (but for most purposes should be of comparable type and content).

See Also

multiData2list for converting a multiData structure to a list; list2multiData for an alternative way of creating a multiData structure; mtd.apply, mtd.applyToSubset, mtd.mapply for ways of applying a function to each component of a multiData structure.

Examples

data1 = matrix(rnorm(100), 20, 5);
data2 = matrix(rnorm(50), 10, 5);

md = multiData(Set1 = data1, Set2 = data2);

checkSets(md)