Sarah, Thank you for the reference to ?data. Upon further research into the matter, I think I can provide a simpler explanation than the one previously provided. I am trying to reproduce the following code with an object -- 'anno' -- in my data frame/environment.
>fake.data <- matrix(rnorm(8*200), ncol=8) I found the number of columns with >ncol(anno) , which is 3 How do I find rnorm when I don't have the data table (saved as the 'anno' object) mean or standard dev. ? I will try reading in the data object through read.table() now, though won't that just print the data or a subset thereof into my R console? On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:46 AM Spencer Brackett < spbracket...@saintjosephhs.com> wrote: > Sarah, > > I am trying to extract phenoData (ie sample information) from the object > as part of a procedure to analyze my array for probe sets, which I realize > is under the BioConducter package Biobase and not relevant to this mailing > list. > > Yes the original procedure uses data from the Dilution dataset hosted in > the AffyBatch package affydata. Previous to this part of the procedure, a > dataset was create via.. > > >fake.data <- matrix(rnorm(8*200), ncol=8) > ##Then phenotype (sample) data was generated in this example through... ## > > sample.info <- data.frame( + spl=paste('A', 1:8, sep=''), + > stat=rep(c('cancer' , 'healthy'), each=4)) > > ##Then a meta data.frame object was created to give more intelligible > labels## > > > meta.info <- data.frame (labelDescription = + c('Sample Name' , 'Cancer > Status')) Then we put them all together: > pheno <- > new("AnnotatedDataFrame", + data = sample.info, + varMetadata = meta.info > ) > > ##Which was then aggregated together## > > > pheno <- new("AnnotatedDataFrame", + data = sample.info, + varMetadata > = meta.info) > > >my.experiments <- new("ExpressionSet", + exprs=fake.data, > phenoData=pheno) > > my.experiments > ExpressionSet (storageMode: lockedEnvironment) assayData: 200 features, 8 > samples element names: exprs > > ##The following deals with further manipulating the phenoData## > phenoData > sampleNames: 1, 2, ..., 8 (8 total) varLabels and varMetadata > description: spl: Sample Name stat: Cancer Status > > featureData > featureNames: 1, 2, ..., 200 (200 total) fvarLabels and fvarMetadata > description: none > experimentData: use 'experimentData(object)' > Annotation: > > ##At this point is when the dataset 'Dilution was read in through > data(Dilution) > > which was made an object of the AnnotatedDataFrame via > > >phenoData(Dilution) > > My apologies in advance as I know the above info. pertains to functions > carried out strictly through BioConducor, but is the only context I can > provide for what I am trying to do. > > Best, > > Spencer > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:23 AM Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Spencer, >> >> Your description doesn't make any sense to me. If anno is already an R >> object, what are you trying to do with it? >> >> data() is for loading datasets that come with packages; if your object >> is already an R object in your environment, then there's no need for >> it. >> >> It sounds like you are possibly working through an example provided >> elsewhere, that has sample data loaded with data(). If so, then you do >> not need that step for your own data. You just need to import it into >> R in the correct format. >> >> If that doesn't help, then I think we need more information on what >> you're trying to do. >> >> Sarah >> >> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:18 AM Spencer Brackett >> <spbracket...@saintjosephhs.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am trying to create a data set from an object called ‘anno’ in my >> > environment. I’ve tried arguments like saveRDS(anno, file = “”) and >> > save(anno, file “.RData”) to save the object as a file to see if that >> will >> > work, but it seems for the particular procedure I am trying to carry >> out, I >> > need to transpose the object to a data set. Any ideas as to how I might >> do >> > this? For reference, my next step in manipulating the data contained in >> the >> > object is data(), which evidently does not work for reading in data >> frame >> > objects as data(“file/object name). >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > Spencer >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> >> -- >> Sarah Goslee (she/her) >> http://www.numberwright.com >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.