Seurat (version 2.3.4)

SplitObject: Splits object into a list of subsetted objects.

Description

Splits object based on a single attribute into a list of subsetted objects, one for each level of the attribute. For example, useful for taking an object that contains cells from many patients, and subdividing it into patient-specific objects.

Usage

SplitObject(object, attribute.1 = "ident", ...)

Arguments

object

Seurat object

attribute.1

Attribute for splitting. Default is "ident". Currently only supported for class-level (i.e. non-quantitative) attributes.

…

Additional parameters to pass to SubsetData

Value

A named list of Seurat objects, each containing a subset of cells from the original object.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Assign the test object a three level attribute
groups <- sample(c("group1", "group2", "group3"), size = 80, replace = TRUE)
names(groups) <- [e-mail]
pbmc_small <- AddMetaData(object = pbmc_small, metadata = groups, col.name = "group")
obj.list <- SplitObject(pbmc_small, attribute.1 = "group")

# }