Sample names — sampleNames • AcidExperiment

This function will return the human readable sample names if defined in the sampleName column of sampleData. Otherwise it will return the syntactically valid names defined as the rownames of sampleData.

Usage

sampleNames(object)

sampleNames(object) <- value

# S4 method for class 'SummarizedExperiment,character'
sampleNames(object) <- value

Arguments

object: Object.
value: Value to assign.

Value

Named character.

Note

Updated 2020-03-15.

Examples

data(RangedSummarizedExperiment, package = "AcidTest")
rse <- RangedSummarizedExperiment

## SummarizedExperiment ====
object <- rse
x <- sampleNames(object)
print(x)
#>   sample01   sample02   sample03   sample04   sample05   sample06   sample07 
#> "sample01" "sample02" "sample03" "sample04" "sample05" "sample06" "sample07" 
#>   sample08   sample09   sample10   sample11   sample12 
#> "sample08" "sample09" "sample10" "sample11" "sample12" 

## Assignment support.
value <- sampleNames(object)
value <- toupper(value)
print(value)
#>   sample01   sample02   sample03   sample04   sample05   sample06   sample07 
#> "SAMPLE01" "SAMPLE02" "SAMPLE03" "SAMPLE04" "SAMPLE05" "SAMPLE06" "SAMPLE07" 
#>   sample08   sample09   sample10   sample11   sample12 
#> "SAMPLE08" "SAMPLE09" "SAMPLE10" "SAMPLE11" "SAMPLE12" 
sampleNames(object) <- value
x <- sampleNames(object)
print(x)
#>   sample01   sample02   sample03   sample04   sample05   sample06   sample07 
#> "SAMPLE01" "SAMPLE02" "SAMPLE03" "SAMPLE04" "SAMPLE05" "SAMPLE06" "SAMPLE07" 
#>   sample08   sample09   sample10   sample11   sample12 
#> "SAMPLE08" "SAMPLE09" "SAMPLE10" "SAMPLE11" "SAMPLE12"