RnBeads (version 1.4.0)

join.diffMeth,RnBDiffMeth,RnBDiffMeth-method: join.diffMeth-methods

Description

Merges two disjoint RnBDiffMeth objects into one. Disjoint here means, that no differential methylation table is specified in both objects.

Usage

"join.diffMeth"(obj1, obj2)

Arguments

obj1

RnBDiffMeth object. Its base properties will be used to create the joint object this is particularly imported for disk dumped objects as its path will be used and tables from the second object will be copied there

obj2

RnBDiffMeth object

Value

the merged RnBDiffMeth object

Examples

library(RnBeads.hg19)
data(small.example.object)
logger.start(fname=NA)
dm1 <- rnb.execute.computeDiffMeth(rnb.set.example,pheno.cols=c("Sample_Group"),region.types=c("genes","tiling"))
dm2 <- rnb.execute.computeDiffMeth(rnb.set.example,pheno.cols=c("Sample_Group","Treatment"),region.types=c("promoters"))
dm.join1 <- join.diffMeth(dm1,dm2)
#the following joint object is invalid, because some region type - comparison combinations are missing
is.valid(dm.join1)
dm3 <- rnb.execute.computeDiffMeth(rnb.set.example,pheno.cols=c("Treatment"),region.types=c("genes","tiling"))
dm.join2 <- join.diffMeth(dm.join1,dm3)
#after joining the missing information, the new object is valid
is.valid(dm.join2)