[BioC] coerce matrix to aafTable

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Georg,

Georg Otto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an R/bioconductor problem, that seemed to be quite simple to me
> at the first glance, but turned out to be tricky, either because I do
> not have reached the necessary level of R-savvyness yet, or because I
> miss something obvious.
> 
> Here is the problem: I want to transform a matrix of expression
> values (where rows are genes and columns are hybridizations) into an
> aafTable (from package annaffy). The probe IDs should be taken from
> the row names of the matrix and the column names should be taken from
> the column names of the matrix.  No problem to do this by hand:
> 
> table<-aafTable(probeids=rownames(matrix),
>     "colname1"=matrix[,1],
>     "colname2"=matrix[,2],
>     "colname3"=matrix[,3],
>     "colname4"=matrix[,4])

table <- aafTable(items = as.data.frame(matrix))

This can be rather computationally expensive if the matrices are large, 
but it is probably the simplest solution.

Best,

Jim


> 
> I would like to do that programatically for many different matrices
> which differ both in the number of columns and in the column names,
> maybe by using a small function. However I was not successful to
> contrive such a thing. Maybe somebody out there could give me a hint?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Georg
> 
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