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SeuratObject (version 5.0.2)

AddMetaData-StdAssay: Add in metadata associated with either cells or features.

Description

Adds additional data to the object. Can be any piece of information associated with a cell (examples include read depth, alignment rate, experimental batch, or subpopulation identity) or feature (ENSG name, variance). To add cell level information, add to the Seurat object. If adding feature-level metadata, add to the Assay object (e.g. object[["RNA"]])

Usage

# S3 method for StdAssay
AddMetaData(object, metadata, col.name = NULL)

Value

object with metadata added

Arguments

object

An object

metadata

A vector, list, or data.frame with metadata to add

col.name

A name for meta data if not a named list or data.frame