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mtd.simplify: If possible, simplify a multiData structure to a 3-dimensional array.

Description

This function attempts to put all data components into a 3-dimensional array, with the last dimension corresponding to the sets. This is only possible if all data components are matrices or data frames with the same dimensiosn.

Usage

mtd.simplify(multiData)

Value

A 3-dimensional array collecting all data components.

Arguments

multiData

A multiData structure in the "strict" sense (see below).

Author

Peter Langfelder

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).

This function assumes a "strict" multiData structure.

See Also

multiData to create a multiData structure;

multiData2list for converting multiData structures to plain lists.