getSampleFromSubject {psichomics} | R Documentation

## Get samples matching the given subjects

### Description

Get samples matching the given subjects

### Usage

    getSampleFromSubject(
      patients,
      samples,
      clinical = NULL,
      rm.NA = TRUE,
      match = NULL,
      showMatch = FALSE
    )

### Arguments

`patients` | Character or list of characters: subject identifiers
`samples` | Character: sample identifiers
`clinical` | Data frame or matrix: clinical dataset
`rm.NA` | Boolean: remove missing values?
`match` | Integer: vector of subject index with the sample identifiers as name to save time (optional)
`showMatch` | Boolean: show matching subject index?

### Value

Names of the matching samples (if `showMatch = TRUE`, a character with the subjects as values and their respective samples as names is returned)

### See Also

Other functions for data grouping: `createGroupByAttribute()`, `getGeneList()`, `getSubjectFromSample()`, `groupPerElem()`, `plotGroupIndependence()`, `testGroupIndependence()`

### Examples

    subjects <- c("GTEX-ABC", "GTEX-DEF", "GTEX-GHI", "GTEX-JKL", "GTEX-MNO")
    samples <- paste0(subjects, "-sample")
    clinical <- data.frame(samples=samples)
    rownames(clinical) <- subjects
    getSampleFromSubject(subjects[c(1, 4)], samples, clinical)

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