is_module {GWENA} | R Documentation

## Determine if an object is a module or a list of modules

### Description

Check content of a given object to determine if it's a module or a list of modules, meaning a single vector of characters which are gene names, or a named list of these vectors

### Usage

    is_module(module, is_list = FALSE)

### Arguments

`module` | vector or list, object to test to be a module or list of modules
`is_list` | boolean, indicate if module must be tested as a single module or a list of modules

### Value

list, a boolean as first element and in second element NULL or the reason why boolean is set to FALSE

### Examples

    single_module <- c("BIRC3", "PMAIP1", "CASP8", "JUN", "BCL2L11", "MCL1",
                       "IL1B", "SPTAN1", "DIABLO", "BAX", "BIK", "IL1A", "BID",
                       "CDKN1A", "GADD45A")
    is_module(single_module)

    multi_module <- list(mod1 = single_module,
                         mod2 = c("TAF1C", "TARBP2", "POLH", "CETN2", "POLD1",
                         "CANT1", "PDE4B", "DGCR8", "RAD51", "SURF1", "PNP",
                         "ADA", "NME3", "GTF3C5", "NT5C"))
    is_module(multi_module$modules, is_list = TRUE)

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