Profile {TargetSearch} | R Documentation

## Average the correlating masses for each metabolite

### Description

This function makes a profile from the masses that correlate for each metabolite.

### Usage

    Profile(samples, Lib, peakData, r_thres = 0.95, method = "dayNorm", minPairObs = 5)

### Arguments

`samples` | A `tsSample` object created by `ImportSamples` function.
`Lib` | A `tsLib` object created by `ImportLibrary` function with corrected RI values. See `medianRILib`.
`peakData` | A `tsMSdata` object. See `peakFind`.
`r_thres` | A correlation threshold.
`method` | Normalisation method. Options are `"dayNorm"`, a day based median normalisation, `"medianNorm"`, normalisation using the median of all the intensities of a given mass, and `"none"`, no normalisation at all.
`minPairObs` | Minimum number of pair observations. Correlations between two variables are computed using all complete pairs of observations in those variables. If the number of observations is too small, you may get high correlations values just by chance, so this parameters is used to avoid that. Cannot be set lower than 5.

### Value

A `tsProfile` object. The slots are:

`Info` | A data frame with a profile of all masses that correlate.
`Intensity` | A list containing peak-intensity matrices, one matrix per metabolite.
`RI` | A list containing RI matrices, one matrix per metabolite.
`profInt` | A matrix with the averaged intensities of the correlating masses.
`profRI` | A matrix with the averaged RI of the correlating masses.

### Author(s)

Alvaro Cuadros-Inostroza, Matthew Hannah, Henning Redestig

### See Also

`ImportSamples`, `ImportLibrary`, `medianRILib`, `peakFind`, `tsProfile`

### Examples

    require(TargetSearchData)
    data(TSExample)

    # get RI file path
    RI.path <- file.path(find.package("TargetSearchData"), "gc-ms-data")
    # update RI file path
    RIpath(sampleDescription) <- RI.path
    # Import Library
    refLibrary        <- ImportLibrary(file.path(RI.path,'library.txt'))
    # update median RI
    refLibrary        <- medianRILib(sampleDescription, refLibrary)
    # get the sample RI
    corRI             <- sampleRI(sampleDescription, refLibrary, r_thres = 0.95)
    # obtain the peak Intensities of all the masses in the library
    peakData          <- peakFind(sampleDescription, refLibrary, corRI)
    # make a profile of the metabolite data
    metabProfile      <- Profile(sampleDescription, refLibrary, peakData, r_thres = 0.95)

    # same as above, but with different thresholds.
    metabProfile      <- Profile(sampleDescription, refLibrary, peakData,
                         r_thres = 0.9, minPairObs = 5)

[Package TargetSearch version 1.42.1 Index]