scSubjects {aggregateBioVar} | R Documentation

## SingleCellExperiment subject values

### Description

Extract unique values from SingleCellExperiment column (i.e. cell) metadata. Used to determine subject and cell type values.

### Usage

    scSubjects(scExp, ...)

### Arguments

`scExp` | SingleCellExperiment object containing (at minimum) gene counts and column metadata describing sample identifiers and cell types.
`...` | Named metadata variables for subjects and cell types.

### Value

List of character vectors with unique values from SingleCellExperiment column metadata variables.

### Examples

    ## Examples of metadata column variable names.
    names(SummarizedExperiment::colData(small_airway))

    ## Return list of subject and cell type values from experiment metadata.
    scSubjects(scExp=small_airway, subjects="orig.ident", cellTypes="celltype")

[Package aggregateBioVar version 1.0.0 Index]