Loads attribute data.
load.attribute(path, variable = NULL, sample = NULL)
A path of a file that contains attribute data to be loaded.
When the file is a loadable .Rdata
,
name
of the dataframe object in the .Rdata
(that actually contains the relevant data)
has to be specified as well.
An optional string that designates the name of a
dataframe object that has been saved in an .Rdata
.
(See the description of path
.)
An optional numeric array that designates the samples, that is rows, of the dataframe to be loaded.
An object that represents the attributes of microarray/RNA-seq data. Internally, the object holds a dataframe whose number of entries (rows) equals that of the samples.