Convert a pData data.frame to a melted EAV table

Source: R/entity-attribute-value.R

Transforms a wide pData data.frame into a melted EAV table for use in a FacileDataSet. This function will also produce the list-of-list encodings that are generated from eav_metadata_create() to do its thing as an attribute of the returned object.

as.EAVtable(
  x,
  ignore = c("dataset", "sample_id"),
  covariate_def = list(),
  na.rm = TRUE
)

Arguments

x

a wide pData data.frame
covariate_def

passed to eav_metadata_create() that is used to override default covariate definitions extracted from the columns of x

Value

a melted EAV table from x

Details

If you want to provide custom definitions for the covariates in the EAVtable that are different than the ones generated in eav_metadata_create(), then provie that definition list in the covariate_def parameter.