Package 'alabaster.se'

Title: Load and Save SummarizedExperiments from File
Description: Save SummarizedExperiments into file artifacts, and load them back into memory. This is a more portable alternative to serialization of such objects into RDS files. Each artifact is associated with metadata for further interpretation; downstream applications can enrich this metadata with context-specific properties.
Authors: Aaron Lun [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Aaron Lun <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 1.5.3
Built: 2024-07-17 19:30:33 UTC
Source: https://github.com/bioc/alabaster.se

Help Index


Is the rowRanges empty?

Description

Check the rowRanges of a RangedSummarizedExperiment is empty, i.e., a GRangesList with no ranges.

Usage

emptyRowRanges(x)

Arguments

x

A RangedSummarizedExperiment object or the contents of its rowRanges.

Details

Metadata in mcols is ignored for the purpose of this discussion, as this can be moved to the rowData(x) of the base SummarizedExperiment class without loss. In other words, non-empty mcols will not be used to determine that the rowRanges is not empty. However, non-empty fields in the metadata or in the inner mcols of the GRanges will trigger a non-emptiness decision.

Value

A logical scalar indicating whether x has empty rowRanges.

Examples

emptyRowRanges(SummarizedExperiment())
emptyRowRanges(SummarizedExperiment(rowRanges=GRanges()))
emptyRowRanges(SummarizedExperiment(rowRanges=GRangesList()))

Read a RangedSummarizedExperiment from disk

Description

Read a RangedSummarizedExperiment from its on-disk representation. This is usually not directly called by users, but is instead called by dispatch in readObject.

Usage

readRangedSummarizedExperiment(path, metadata, ...)

Arguments

path

String containing a path to a directory, itself created using the saveObject method for RangedSummarizedExperiment objects.

metadata

Named list of metadata for this object, see readObjectFile for details.

...

Further arguments passed to readSummarizedExperiment and internal altReadObject calls.

Value

A RangedSummarizedExperiment object.

Author(s)

Aaron Lun

See Also

"saveObject,RangedSummarizedExperiment-method", to save the RangedSummarizedExperiment to disk.

Examples

# Mocking up an experiment:
mat <- matrix(rpois(10000, 10), ncol=10)
colnames(mat) <- letters[1:10]
rownames(mat) <- sprintf("GENE_%i", seq_len(nrow(mat)))

gr <- GRanges("chrA", IRanges(1:1000, width=10))
se <- SummarizedExperiment(list(counts=mat), rowRanges=gr)
se$stuff <- LETTERS[1:10]
rowData(se)$blah <- runif(1000)
metadata(se)$whee <- "YAY"

tmp <- tempfile()
saveObject(se, tmp)
readObject(tmp)

Read a SummarizedExperiment from disk

Description

Read a SummarizedExperiment from its on-disk representation. This is usually not directly called by users, but is instead called by dispatch in readObject.

Usage

readSummarizedExperiment(path, metadata, ...)

Arguments

path

String containing a path to a directory, itself created using the saveObject method for SummarizedExperiment objects.

metadata

Named list of metadata for this object, see readObjectFile for details.

...

Further arguments passed to internal altReadObject calls.

Value

A SummarizedExperiment object.

Author(s)

Aaron Lun

See Also

"saveObject,SummarizedExperiment-method", to save the SummarizedExperiment to disk.

Examples

# Mocking up an experiment:
mat <- matrix(rpois(10000, 10), ncol=10)
colnames(mat) <- letters[1:10]
rownames(mat) <- sprintf("GENE_%i", seq_len(nrow(mat)))

se <- SummarizedExperiment(list(counts=mat))
se$stuff <- LETTERS[1:10]
rowData(se)$blah <- runif(1000)
metadata(se)$whee <- "YAY"

tmp <- tempfile()
saveObject(se, tmp)
readObject(tmp)

Save a RangedSummarizedExperiment to disk

Description

Save a RangedSummarizedExperiment to its on-disk representation.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'RangedSummarizedExperiment'
saveObject(x, path, ...)

Arguments

x

A RangedSummarizedExperiment object or one of its subclasses.

path

String containing the path to a directory in which to save x.

...

Further arguments to pass to "saveObject,SummarizedExperiment-method" and internal altSaveObject calls.

Value

x is saved into path and NULL is invisibly returned.

Author(s)

Aaron Lun

See Also

readRangedSummarizedExperiment, to read the RangedSummarizedExperiment back into the R session.

Examples

mat <- matrix(rpois(10000, 10), ncol=10)
colnames(mat) <- letters[1:10]
rownames(mat) <- sprintf("GENE_%i", seq_len(nrow(mat)))

gr <- GRanges("chrA", IRanges(1:1000, width=10))
se <- SummarizedExperiment(list(counts=mat), rowRanges=gr)
se$stuff <- LETTERS[1:10]
rowData(se)$blah <- runif(1000)
metadata(se)$whee <- "YAY"

tmp <- tempfile()
saveObject(se, tmp)
list.files(tmp, recursive=TRUE)

Save a SummarizedExperiment to disk

Description

Save a SummarizedExperiment to its on-disk representation.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SummarizedExperiment'
saveObject(x, path, SummarizedExperiment.allow.dataframe.assay = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

A SummarizedExperiment object or one of its subclasses.

path

String containing the path to a directory in which to save x.

SummarizedExperiment.allow.dataframe.assay

Logical scalar indicating whether to allow data frames as assays of x.

...

Further arguments to pass to internal altSaveObject calls.

Details

By default, we consider the presence of data frames in the assays to be an error. Users should coerce these into an appropriate matrix type, e.g., a dense matrix or a sparse dgCMatrix. If a DataFrame as an assay is truly desired, users may set options(alabaster.se.reject_data.frames=FALSE) to skip the error. Note that this only works for DataFrame objects - data.frame objects will not be saved correctly.

Value

x is saved into path and NULL is invisibly returned.

Author(s)

Aaron Lun

See Also

readSummarizedExperiment, to read the SummarizedExperiment back into the R session.

Examples

mat <- matrix(rpois(10000, 10), ncol=10)
colnames(mat) <- letters[1:10]
rownames(mat) <- sprintf("GENE_%i", seq_len(nrow(mat)))

se <- SummarizedExperiment(list(counts=mat))
se$stuff <- LETTERS[1:10]
rowData(se)$blah <- runif(1000)
metadata(se)$whee <- "YAY"

tmp <- tempfile()
saveObject(se, tmp)
list.files(tmp, recursive=TRUE)