R/SnpChipEffectGroupMerge.R

In aroma.affymetrix: Analysis of Large Affymetrix Microarray Data Sets

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# @RdocClass SnpChipEffectGroupMerge
#
# @title "The SnpChipEffectGroupMerge class"
#
# \description{
#  @classhierarchy
#
#  This class represents a method that merges SNP chip effects across groups
#  unit by unit.
# }
#
# @synopsis
#
# \arguments{
#   \item{...}{Arguments passed to the constructor of
#        @see "ChipEffectGroupMerge".}
#   \item{mergeStrands}{If @TRUE, group strands are merged.}
#   \item{mean}{A @character string specifying what type of averaging
#        should be applied.}
# }
#
# \section{Fields and Methods}{
#  @allmethods "public"
# }
#
# @author "HB"
#
# @keyword "internal"
#*/###########################################################################
setConstructorS3("SnpChipEffectGroupMerge", function(..., mergeStrands=FALSE, mean=c("arithmetic", "geometric")) {
  # Argument 'mean':
  mean <- match.arg(mean)

  extend(ChipEffectGroupMerge(...), "SnpChipEffectGroupMerge",
    mergeStrands = mergeStrands,
    .mean = mean
  )
})


setMethodS3("getMergeFunction", "SnpChipEffectGroupMerge", function(this, ...) {
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  # Local functions
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  mergeStrandsMatrix <- function(y, g=function(x) x, h=function(x) x, ...) {
    n <- nrow(y)
    if (n %in% c(2,4)) {
      yy <- y[1:2,,drop=FALSE]
      yy <- g(yy)
      yy <- colMeans(yy, na.rm=TRUE)
      yy <- h(yy)
      y[1,] <- yy
      y[2,] <- 0
      if (n == 4) {
        yy <- y[3:4,,drop=FALSE]
        yy <- log2(yy)
        yy <- colMeans(yy, na.rm=TRUE)
        yy <- 2^yy
        y[3,] <- yy
        y[4,] <- 0
      }
    }
    y
  }


  # Get the merge function
  mean <- this$.mean
  fcn <- NULL
  if (this$mergeStrands) {
    if (mean == "geometric") {
      fcn <- function(y) {
        mergeStrandsMatrix(y, g=log2, h=function(x) 2^x)
      }
    } else if (mean == "arithmetic") {
      fcn <- function(y) {
        mergeStrandsMatrix(y)
      }
    }
  }

  fcn
})


setMethodS3("getAsteriskTags", "SnpChipEffectGroupMerge", function(this, ...) {
  tags <- NULL
  if (this$mergeStrands)
    tags <- c(tags, "F+R")

  tags
}, protected=TRUE)


setMethodS3("getParameters", "SnpChipEffectGroupMerge", function(this, ...) {
  # Get parameters from super class
  params <- NextMethod("getParameters")

  # Get parameters of this class
  params2 <- list(
    mergeStrands = this$mergeStrands
  )

  # Append the two sets
  params <- c(params, params2)

  params
}, protected=TRUE)