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Set cell metadata

Source: R/utils-classes.R
set_colData.Rd

Set cell metadata from a given object

Usage

set_colData(object, meta)

Arguments

object

a SingleCellExperiment object

meta

a dataframe containing object metadata

Value

a SingleCellExperiment object with new colData

Examples


data(small_example_dataset)
new_meta <- data.frame(row.names = colnames(small_example_dataset))
new_meta$example <- "example"
set_colData(small_example_dataset, new_meta)
#> class: SingleCellExperiment 
#> dim: 1000 200 
#> metadata(1): markers
#> assays(2): counts logcounts
#> rownames(1000): Gene_0001 Gene_0002 ... Gene_0999 Gene_1000
#> rowData names(0):
#> colnames(200): Cell_001 Cell_002 ... Cell_199 Cell_200
#> colData names(1): example
#> reducedDimNames(3): PCA TSNE UMAP
#> mainExpName: gene
#> altExpNames(1): Spikes