WGCNA (version 1.73)

multiData: Create a multiData structure.

Description

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

Usage

multiData(...)

Value

The resulting multiData structure.

Arguments

...

Arguments to be stored in the multiData structure.

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).

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)