updateObject {SingleCellExperiment} | R Documentation

## Update a SingleCellExperiment object

### Description

Update a SingleCellExperiment object

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'SingleCellExperiment'
    updateObject(object, ...,
      verbose = FALSE)

### Arguments

`object` | A old SingleCellExperiment object.
`...` | Additional arguments that are ignored.
`verbose` | Logical scalar indicating whether a message should be emitted as the object is updated.

### Details

This function updates the SingleCellExperiment to match changes in the internal class representation. Changes are as follows:

- Objects created before 1.7.1 are modified to include `altExps` and `reducedDims` fields in their internal column metadata. Reduced dimension results previously in the `reducedDims` slot are transferred to the `reducedDims` field.

### Value

An updated version of `object`.

### Author(s)

Aaron Lun

### See Also

`objectVersion`, which is used to determine if the object is up-to-date.

[Package SingleCellExperiment version 1.8.0 Index]