get_metadata: Retrieves the metadata of an experiment

In mjgeng/ribor: An R Interface for Ribo Files

Description

get_metadata provides information on all of the user-inputted metadata of an experiment. If the experiment is not found, then the attributes of the root .ribo file is returned instead.

Usage

get_metadata(ribo.object, name = NULL, print = TRUE)

Arguments

ribo.object	object of class 'ribo'
name	The name of the experiment
print	Logical value indicating whether or not to neatly print the output

Value

If a valid experiment name is provided, a list of elements providing all of the metadata of the experiment is returned.

If the name is not provided and the root file has metadata, then a list of elements providing all of the metadata found in the root file is returnend.

See Also

Ribo to generate the necessary ribo.object parameter

Examples

#ribo object use case
#generate the ribo object
file.path <- system.file("extdata", "sample.ribo", package = "ribor")
sample <- Ribo(file.path)

#the ribo file contains an experiment named 'Hela_1'
get_metadata(sample, "Hela_1")

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