Merge inferred and explicit covariate column metadata.

Takes a list of (perhaps) default sets of entity-attribute metadata, as would be generated from eav_metadata_create(pData(eSet), covariate_def = NULL), and pulls out the sister custom-definitions from the covariate_def attribute definition list.

eav_metadata_merge(default_def, covariate_def = list())

Arguments

default_def	A list of covariate-definition-lists, as would be returned from eav_metadata_create()
covariate_def	list of additional covariate info, such as 'label'. The variables defined here (defined by names(covarate_def)) need not be identical to names(defeault_def).

Value

list of column metadata lists

Details

If the covariate_def list-of-lists has information for variables not found in default_def, ie. the definitions returned from setdiff(names(covariate_def), names(default_def)) will be added to the object returned from this funciton.