Makes the union between two micro_array objects.

# S4 method for micro_array,micro_array
unionMicro(M1, M2)

Arguments

M1	a micro-array or a list of micro-arrays
M2	a micro-array or nothing if M1 is a list of micro-arrays

Methods

list("signature(M1 = \"micro_array\", M2 = \"micro_array\")"): Returns a micro_array object which is the union of M1 and M2.
list("signature(M1 = \"list\", M2 = \"ANY\")"): Returns a micro_array object which is the union of the elements of M1.

Examples


data(M)
#Create another microarray object with 100 genes
Mbis<-M
#Rename the 100 genes
Mbis@name<-paste(M@name,"bis")
rownames(Mbis@microarray) <- Mbis@name
#Union (merge without duplicated names) of the two microarrays. 
str(unionMicro(M,Mbis))
#> Formal class 'micro_array' [package "Cascade"] with 6 slots
#>   ..@ microarray: num [1:200, 1:20] 41.4 478.6 -655.7 -759.9 -159.7 ...
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
#>   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:200] "gene 1" "gene 2" "gene 3" "gene 4" ...
#>   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:20] "log(S/US) : P1T1" "log(S/US) : P1T2" "log(S/US) : P1T3" "log(S/US) : P1T4" ...
#>   ..@ name      : chr [1:200] "gene 1" "gene 2" "gene 3" "gene 4" ...
#>   ..@ group     : int [1:200] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>   ..@ start_time: num [1:200] 0 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#>   ..@ time      : int [1:4] 1 2 3 4
#>   ..@ subject   : num 5