Add feature metadata#

Last Updated: Oct 02, 2023

Description#

Adds feature metadata to the giotto object

Usage#

addFeatMetadata(
  gobject,
  feat_type = NULL,
  spat_unit = NULL,
  new_metadata,
  by_column = F,
  column_feat_ID = NULL
)

Arguments#

`gobject`	giotto object
`feat_type`	feature type
`spat_unit`	spatial unit
`new_metadata`	new metadata to use
`by_column`	merge metadata based on feat_ID column in `fDataDT`
`column_feat_ID`	column name of new metadata to use if by_column = TRUE

Details#

You can add additional feature metadata in two manners:
1. Provide a data.table or data.frame with feature annotations in the
same order as the feat_ID column in fDataDT(gobject)
2. Provide a data.table or data.frame with feature annotations and
specify which column contains the feature IDs, these feature IDs need
to match with the feat_ID column in fDataDT(gobject)

Value#

giotto object