Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-18 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
I think the more clean solution for Davide (if he inists on having separate objects; I decided against it in minfi) is to extend the class to allow this. Kasper On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Ryan r...@thompsonclan.org wrote: Oh wow, I didn't know you could put a DataFrame into a single

Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-18 Thread Vincent Carey
yes, if a formal extension is warranted. the metadata slot could also be used. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com wrote: I think the more clean solution for Davide (if he inists on having separate objects; I decided against it in minfi) is to

Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-18 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
you can just implement this by having reserved column names in the colData slot; that will work and will take appr. 23 seconds to implement. I agree it is not as clean from a design perspective, but you get 100% of the functionality and you can write a separate checker for the colData argument.

Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-18 Thread davide risso
Thanks Kasper, I think that's a good solution. Best, Davide On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:51 AM Kasper Daniel Hansen kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com wrote: you can just implement this by having reserved column names in the colData slot; that will work and will take appr. 23 seconds to implement.

Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-18 Thread davide risso
Thank you all for the responses. I didn't think about the nested DataFrame solution. It should work. I agree that an extension might be cleaner, but I clearly need to give it more thought. One of the reasons I wanted to have quality and metadata as separate slots is that one could enforce that

Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-17 Thread Martin Morgan
On 06/17/2015 11:41 AM, davide risso wrote: Dear list, I'm creating an R package to store RNA-seq data of a somewhat large project in which I'm involved. One of the initial goals is to compare different pre-processing pipelines, hence I have multiple expression matrices corresponding to the

Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-17 Thread Ryan
Oh wow, I didn't know you could put a DataFrame into a single column of another DataFrame. That actually solves a problem for me too (I don't intend to expose nested DataFrames to the users though). On 6/17/15 7:23 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: On 06/17/2015 11:41 AM, davide risso wrote: Dear