affyPara (version 1.32.0)

splitObjects: Functions to split objects into parts

Description

Functions to split an AffyBatch, a list of files and a matrix into several objects for distributed computing. If possible objects will be of the same size.

Usage

splitAffyBatch(abatch, number.part)
splitFileVector(fileVec, number.part)
splitMatrix(matrix, number.part)

Arguments

abatch

An object of class AffyBatch.

fileVec

A character vector containing the names of the files.

matrix

An object of class matrix.

number.part

Number of parts to split the object

Value

A list of the split objects.

Details

splitAffyBatch

Splits an AffyBatch into a list of AffyBatches.

splitFileVector

Splits a character vector of file names into a list of character vectors with file names.

splitMatrix

Splits a matrix by columns into a list of matrices.

These functions use the functions splitIndices and splitCols from the SNOW package.

Examples

library(affyPara)
if (require(affydata)) {
  data(Dilution)

  spAffyB <- splitAffyBatch(Dilution, 2)
}