NBumiConvertToInteger {M3Drop} | R Documentation

## Turn a matrix of expression values into integer counts

### Description

Reformats a provided expression matrix to be compatible with NBumi modelling.

### Usage

    	NBumiConvertToInteger(mat)

### Arguments

`mat` | a numeric matrix of expression values (ideally raw UMI counts), columns = samples, rows = genes.

### Details

Coerces the provided data to a matrix then rounds all values up (ceiling) to integers and removes all rows where all values are zero.

### Value

Rounded, integer matrix of the original data.

### Examples

    mat <- matrix(rgamma(1000, shape=10, scale=20), ncol=10)
    mat_int <- NBumiConvertToInteger(mat)
    is.integer(mat_int)

[Package M3Drop version 1.20.0 Index]