Speed Optimized Functions In The Package wrMisc
In high-throughput experiments in biology (like transcriptomics,
proteomics etc…) many different features get measured a number if times
(different samples like patients or evolution of a disease). The
resulting data typically contain many (independent) rows (eg >1000
different genes or proteins who’s abundance was measured) and much fewer
columns that may get further organized in groups of replicates. As R is
a versatile language, multiple options exist for assessing the global
characteristics of such data, some are more efficient on a computational
point of view. In order to allow fast treatment of very large data-sets
some tools have been re-designed for optimal performance.
Assessing Basic Information About Variability (for matrix)
Many measurement techniques applied in high throughput manner suffer
from precision. This means, the same measurements taken twice in a row
(ie repeated on the same subject) will very likely not give an identical
result. For this reason it is common practice to make replicate
measurements to i) estimate mean (ie representative) values and ii)
asses the factors contributing to the variablity observed. Briefly,
technical replicates represent the case where multiple read-outs of the
very same sample are generated and the resulting variability is
associated to technical issues during the process of taking measures.
Biological replicates represent independant samples and reflect
therefore the varibility a given parameter may have in a certain
population of individuals. With the tools presented here, both technical
and biological replicates can be dealt with. In several cases the
interpretation of the resulting numbers should consider the experimental
setup, though.
Let’s make a simple matrix as toy data:
grp1 <- rep(LETTERS[1:3], c(3,4,3))
sampNa1 <- paste0(grp1, c(1:3,1:4,1:3))
set.seed(2016); dat1 <- matrix(round(c(runif(50000) +rep(1:1000,50)),3),
ncol=10, dimnames=list(NULL,sampNa1))
dim(dat1)
## [1] 5000 10
head(dat1)
## A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 B4 C1 C2 C3
## [1,] 1.180 1.640 1.199 1.118 1.425 1.745 1.253 1.554 1.303 1.856
## [2,] 2.143 2.237 2.730 2.693 2.603 2.293 2.542 2.452 2.148 2.776
## [3,] 3.842 3.155 3.191 3.520 3.686 3.408 3.409 3.871 3.345 3.588
## [4,] 4.134 4.394 4.982 4.320 4.380 4.888 4.965 4.462 4.250 4.647
## [5,] 5.478 5.472 5.488 5.570 5.626 5.765 5.551 5.016 5.659 5.139
## [6,] 6.121 6.294 6.718 6.890 6.999 6.316 6.542 6.119 6.763 6.487
Now lets estimate the standard deviation (sd) for every
row:
head(rowSds(dat1))
## [1] 0.2583693 0.2426026 0.2477899 0.3089102 0.2307722 0.3124493
system.time(sd1 <- rowSds(dat1))
## user system elapsed
## 0 0 0
system.time(sd2 <- apply(dat1, 1, sd))
## user system elapsed
## 0.02 0.00 0.01
On most systems the equivalent calculation using apply()
will run much slower compared to rowSds.
Note, there is a minor issue with rounding :
table(round(sd1, 13)==round(sd2, 13))
##
## FALSE TRUE
## 1 4999
Similarly we can easily calculate the CV (coefficient of variation,
ie sd / mean, see also CV)
for every row using rowCVs :
system.time(cv1 <- rowCVs(dat1))
## user system elapsed
## 0 0 0
system.time(cv2 <- apply(dat1, 1, sd) / rowMeans(dat1))
## user system elapsed
## 0.03 0.00 0.04
# typically the calculation using rowCVs is much faster
head(cv1)
## [1] 0.18101959 0.09855083 0.07076678 0.06800894 0.04213940 0.04788568
# results from the 'conventional' way
head(cv2)
## [1] 0.18101959 0.09855083 0.07076678 0.06800894 0.04213940 0.04788568
Note, these calculations will be very efficient as long as the number
of rows is much higher (>>) than the number of columns.
Data Organized In (Sub-)Groups As Sets Of Columns
Now, let’s assume our data is contains 3 initial samples measured as
several replicates (already defined in grp1). Similarly, we can
also calculate the sd or CV for each line while splitting into groups of
replicates (functions rowGrpMeans, rowGrpSds
and rowGrpCV):
# we already defined the grouping :
grp1
## [1] "A" "A" "A" "B" "B" "B" "B" "C" "C" "C"
## the mean for each group and row
system.time(mean1Gr <- rowGrpMeans(dat1, grp1))
## user system elapsed
## 0 0 0
## Now the sd for each row and group
system.time(sd1Gr <- rowGrpSds(dat1, grp1))
## user system elapsed
## 0 0 0
# will give us a matrix with the sd for each group & line
head(sd1Gr)
## A B C
## [1,] 0.260269732 0.27074758 0.2768917
## [2,] 0.315291928 0.17144557 0.3140531
## [3,] 0.386666523 0.13115989 0.2632534
## [4,] 0.434443706 0.33521970 0.1986530
## [5,] 0.008082904 0.09672297 0.3413156
## [6,] 0.307168249 0.31475851 0.3230934
# Let's check the results of the first line :
sd1Gr[1,] == c(sd(dat1[1,1:3]), sd(dat1[1,4:7]), sd(dat1[1,8:10]))
## A B C
## TRUE TRUE TRUE
# The CV :
system.time(cv1Gr <- rowGrpCV(dat1, grp1))
## user system elapsed
## 0.02 0.00 0.01
head(cv1Gr)
## A B C
## [1,] 0.194279471 0.19545033 0.17625186
## [2,] 0.133034569 0.06769147 0.12773308
## [3,] 0.113859400 0.03741279 0.07309886
## [4,] 0.096471585 0.07227288 0.04461104
## [5,] 0.001475162 0.01718603 0.06474939
## [6,] 0.048163108 0.04707197 0.05004286
Counting Number Of NAs Per Row And Group Of Columns
Some data, like with quantitative proteomics measures, may contain an
elevated number of NAs (see also the package wrProteo for
further options for dealing with such data). Furthermore, many other
packages on CRAN and Bioconductor cover this topic, see also the missing data
task-view on CRAN. Similar as above there is an easy way to count
the number of NAs to get an overview how NAs are
distributed.
Let’s assume we have measures from 3 groups/samples with 4 replicates
each :
mat2 <- c(22.2, 22.5, 22.2, 22.2, 21.5, 22.0, 22.1, 21.7, 21.5, 22, 22.2, 22.7,
NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 21.2, NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, 22.6, 23.2, 23.2, 22.4, 22.8, 22.8, NA, 23.3, 23.2, NA, 23.7,
NA, 23.0, 23.1, 23.0, 23.2, 23.2, NA, 23.3, NA, NA, 23.3, 23.8)
mat2 <- matrix(mat2, ncol=12, byrow=TRUE)
## The definition of the groups (ie replicates)
gr4 <- gl(3, 4, labels=LETTERS[1:3])
Now we can easily count the number of NAs per row and set of
replicates.
rowGrpNA(mat2,gr4)
## A B C
## [1,] 0 0 0
## [2,] 4 3 4
## [3,] 1 1 1
## [4,] 1 1 2
Fast NA-omit For Very Large Objects
The function na.omit() from the package stats also
keeps a trace of all omitted instances. This can be penalizing in terms
of memory usage when handling very large vectors with a high content of
NAs (eg >10000 NAs). If you don’t need to document precisely which
elements got eliminated, the function naOmit() may offer
smoother functioning for very large objects.
aA <- c(11:13,NA,10,NA)
str(naOmit(aA))
## num [1:4] 11 12 13 10
# the 'classical' na.omit also stores which elements were NA
str(na.omit(aA))
## num [1:4] 11 12 13 10
## - attr(*, "na.action")= 'omit' int [1:2] 4 6
Minimum Distance/Difference Between Values
If you need to find the closest neighbour(s) of a numeric vector, the
function minDiff() will tell you the distance (“dif”,“ppm”
or “ratio”) and index (“best”) of the closest neighbour. In case of
multiple shortest distances the index if the first one is reported, and
the column “nbest” will display a value of >1.
set.seed(2017); aa <- 10 *c(0.1 +round(runif(20),2), 0.53, 0.53)
head(aa)
## [1] 10.2 6.4 5.7 3.9 8.7 8.7
minDiff(aa,ppm=FALSE)
## index value dif rat ncur nbest best
## [1,] 1 10.2 -0.2 0.981 1 1 19
## [2,] 2 6.4 0.4 1.070 1 1 15
## [3,] 3 5.7 0.3 0.950 2 1 15
## [4,] 4 3.9 0.2 1.050 1 1 10
## [5,] 5 8.7 0.5 1.060 2 1 18
## [6,] 6 8.7 0.5 1.060 2 1 18
## [7,] 7 1.4 0.1 1.080 1 1 13
## [8,] 8 5.3 0.3 1.060 4 1 17
## [9,] 9 5.7 0.3 0.950 2 1 15
## [10,] 10 3.7 -0.2 0.949 1 1 4
## [11,] 11 7.7 -0.5 0.939 1 1 18
## [12,] 12 1.0 -0.3 0.769 1 1 13
## [13,] 13 1.3 -0.1 0.929 1 1 7
## [14,] 14 5.3 0.3 1.060 4 1 17
## [15,] 15 6.0 0.3 1.050 1 2 9
## [16,] 16 4.9 -0.1 0.980 1 1 17
## [17,] 17 5.0 0.1 1.020 1 1 16
## [18,] 18 8.2 0.5 1.060 1 1 11
## [19,] 19 10.4 0.2 1.020 1 1 1
## [20,] 20 9.3 0.6 1.070 1 2 6
## [21,] 21 5.3 0.3 1.060 4 1 17
## [22,] 22 5.3 0.3 1.060 4 1 17
When you look at the first line, the value of 10.2 has one single
closest value which is 10.4, which is located in line number 19 (the
column ‘best’ gives the index of the best). Line number 19 points back
to line number 1. You can see, that some elements (like 5.7) occure
multiple times (line no 3 and 9), multiple occurences are counted in the
column ncur. This is why column nbest for line 15
(value =6.0) indicates that it appears twice as closest value
nbest.
Working With Lists (And Lists Of Lists)
Partial unlist
When input from different places gets collected and combined into a
list, this may give a collection of different types of data. The
function partUnlist() will to preserve multi-column
elements as they are (and just bring down one level):
bb <- list(fa=gl(2,2), ve=31:33, L2=matrix(21:28,ncol=2), li=list(li1=11:14,li2=data.frame(41:44)))
partUnlist(bb)
## $fa
## [1] 1 1 2 2
## Levels: 1 2
##
## $ve
## [1] 31 32 33
##
## $L2
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 21 25
## [2,] 22 26
## [3,] 23 27
## [4,] 24 28
##
## $li1
## [1] 11 12 13 14
##
## $li2
## X41.44
## 1 41
## 2 42
## 3 43
## 4 44
partUnlist(lapply(bb,.asDF2))
## partUnlist : Input is not list of lists, nothing to do
## $fa
## as.character(z)
## 1 1
## 2 1
## 3 2
## 4 2
##
## $ve
## z
## 1 31
## 2 32
## 3 33
##
## $L2
## V1 V2
## 1 21 25
## 2 22 26
## 3 23 27
## 4 24 28
##
## $li
## li1 X41.44
## 1 11 41
## 2 12 42
## 3 13 43
## 4 14 44
This won’t be possible using unlist().
head(unlist(bb, recursive=FALSE))
## $fa1
## [1] 1
##
## $fa2
## [1] 1
##
## $fa3
## [1] 2
##
## $fa4
## [1] 2
##
## $ve1
## [1] 31
##
## $ve2
## [1] 32
To uniform such data to obtain a list with one column only for each
list-element, the function asSepList() provides help :
bb <- list(fa=gl(2,2), ve=31:33, L2=matrix(21:28,ncol=2), li=list(li1=11:14,li2=data.frame(41:44)))
asSepList(bb)
## $fa
## [1] 1 1 2 2
## Levels: 1 2
##
## $L2_1
## [1] 21 22 23 24
##
## $L2_2
## [1] 25 26 27 28
##
## $li1
## [1] 11 12 13 14
##
## $li2
## [1] 41 42 43 44
Appending/Combining Lists
Separate lists may be combined using the append() command,
which also allows treating simple vectors.
li1 <- list(a=1, b=2, c=3)
li2 <- list(A=11, b=2, C=13)
append(li1, li2)
## $a
## [1] 1
##
## $b
## [1] 2
##
## $c
## [1] 3
##
## $A
## [1] 11
##
## $b
## [1] 2
##
## $C
## [1] 13
However, this way there is no checking if some of the list-elements
are present in both lists and thus will appear twice. The function
appendNR() allows to checking if some list-elements will
appear twice, and thus avoid such duplicate entries.
appendNR(li1, li2)
## appendNR : adding 2 new names/elements (1 already present)
## $a
## [1] 1
##
## $b
## [1] 2
##
## $c
## [1] 3
##
## $A
## [1] 11
##
## $C
## [1] 13
rbind On Lists
When a matrix (or data.frame) gets split into a list, like in the
example using by(), as a reverse-function such lists can get
joined using lrbind() in an rbind-like
fashion.
dat2 <- matrix(11:34, ncol=3, dimnames=list(letters[1:8], colnames=LETTERS[1:3]))
lst2 <- by(dat2, rep(1:3,c(3,2,3)), as.matrix)
lst2
## INDICES: 1
## A B C
## a 11 19 27
## b 12 20 28
## c 13 21 29
## ------------------------------------------------------------
## INDICES: 2
## A B C
## d 14 22 30
## e 15 23 31
## ------------------------------------------------------------
## INDICES: 3
## A B C
## f 16 24 32
## g 17 25 33
## h 18 26 34
# join list-elements (back) into single matrix
lrbind(lst2)
## A B C
## a 11 19 27
## b 12 20 28
## c 13 21 29
## d 14 22 30
## e 15 23 31
## f 16 24 32
## g 17 25 33
## h 18 26 34
Merge Multiple Matrices From List
When combining different datasets the function
mergeMatrixList() allows merging multiple matrices (or
data.frames) into a single matrix. Two types of mode of operation are
available : i) Returning only the common/shared elements (as defined by
the rownames), this is default mode=‘intersect’ ; alternatively
one may ii) fuse/merge all matrices together without any loss of data
(using mode=‘union’, additional _NA_s may appear when a given
rowname is absent in one of the input matrices).
Furthermore, one may specifically select which columns should be used
for fusing using the argument useColumn.
mat1 <- matrix(11:18, ncol=2, dimnames=list(letters[3:6],LETTERS[1:2]))
mat2 <- matrix(21:28, ncol=2, dimnames=list(letters[2:5],LETTERS[3:4]))
mat3 <- matrix(31:38, ncol=2, dimnames=list(letters[c(1,3:4,3)],LETTERS[4:5]))
#
mergeMatrixList(list(mat1, mat2), useColumn="all")
## A B C D
## c 11 15 22 26
## d 12 16 23 27
## e 13 17 24 28
# with custom names for the individual matrices
mergeMatrixList(list(m1=mat1, m2=mat2, mat3), mode="union", useColumn=2)
## m1.B m2.D list_3.E
## a NA NA 35
## b NA 25 NA
## c 15 26 38
## d 16 27 37
## e 17 28 NA
## f 18 NA NA
Similarly, separate entries may be merged using
mergeMatrices() :
mergeMatrices(mat1, mat2)
## A
## c 11 22
## d 12 23
## e 13 24
mergeMatrices(mat1, mat2, mat3, mode="union", useColumn=2)
## mat1.B mat2.D mat3.E
## a NA NA 35
## b NA 25 NA
## c 15 26 38
## d 16 27 37
## e 17 28 NA
## f 18 NA NA
## custom names for matrix-origin
mergeMatrices(m1=mat1, m2=mat2, mat3, mode="union", useColumn=2)
## m1.B m2.D mat3.E
## a NA NA 35
## b NA 25 NA
## c 15 26 38
## d 16 27 37
## e 17 28 NA
## f 18 NA NA
## flexible/custom selection of columns
mergeMatrices(m1=mat1, m2=mat2, mat3, mode="union", useColumn=list(1,1:2,2))
## m1.A m2.C m2.D mat3.E
## a NA NA NA 35
## b NA 21 25 NA
## c 11 22 26 38
## d 12 23 27 37
## e 13 24 28 NA
## f 14 NA NA NA
Fuse Content Of List-Elements With Redundant (Duplicated) Names
When list-elements have the same name, their content (of named
numeric or character vectors) may get fused using
fuseCommonListElem() according to the names of the
list-elements :
val1 <- 10 +1:26
names(val1) <- letters
(lst1 <- list(c=val1[3:6], a=val1[1:3], b=val1[2:3] ,a=val1[12], c=val1[13]))
## $c
## c d e f
## 13 14 15 16
##
## $a
## a b c
## 11 12 13
##
## $b
## b c
## 12 13
##
## $a
## l
## 22
##
## $c
## m
## 23
## here the names 'a' and 'c' appear twice :
names(lst1)
## [1] "c" "a" "b" "a" "c"
## now, let's fuse all 'a' and 'c'
fuseCommonListElem(lst1)
## $c
## c d e f m
## 13 14 15 16 23
##
## $a
## a b c l
## 11 12 13 22
##
## $b
## b c
## 12 13
Filtering Lines And/Or Columns For All List-Elements Of Same
Size
In a number of cases the information in various list-elements is
somehow related. Eg, in S3-objects produced by limma,
or data produced using wrProteo several
instances of matrix or data.frame refer to data that are related. Some
matrixes may conatain abundance data (or weights, etc) while another
matrix or data.frame may contain the annotation information related to
each line of the abundance data. So if one wants to filter the data, ie
remove some lines, this should be done in the same way with all related
list-elements. This way one may maintain a conventient 1:1 matching of
lines.
The function filterLiColDeList() searches if other
list-elements have suitable dimensions and will then run the same
filtering as in the ‘target’ list-element. In consequence this can be
used with the output of wrProteo to remove simultaneously the same lines
and/or columns.
lst1 <- list(m1=matrix(11:18, ncol=2), m2=matrix(21:30, ncol=2), indR=31:34,
m3=matrix(c(21:23,NA,25:27,NA), ncol=2))
filterLiColDeList(lst1, useLines=2:3)
## filterLiColDeList : successfully filtered 'm1' and 'm3' from 4 to 2 lines
## $m1
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 12 16
## [2,] 13 17
##
## $m2
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 21 26
## [2,] 22 27
## [3,] 23 28
## [4,] 24 29
## [5,] 25 30
##
## $indR
## [1] 31 32 33 34
##
## $m3
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 22 26
## [2,] 23 27
filterLiColDeList(lst1, useLines="allNA", ref=3)
## filterLiColDeList : It appears lst[[ref]] is not matrix (or data.frame) ! Trying to reformat ..
## filterLiColDeList : 'useLines' seems empty, nothing to do ...
## $m1
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 11 15
## [2,] 12 16
## [3,] 13 17
## [4,] 14 18
##
## $m2
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 21 26
## [2,] 22 27
## [3,] 23 28
## [4,] 24 29
## [5,] 25 30
##
## $indR
## [,1]
## [1,] 31
## [2,] 32
## [3,] 33
## [4,] 34
##
## $m3
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 21 25
## [2,] 22 26
## [3,] 23 27
## [4,] NA NA
Replacements In List
The function listBatchReplace() works similar to
sub() and allows to search & replace exact matches to a
character string along all elements of a list.
(lst1 <- list(aa=1:4, bb=c("abc","efg","abhh","effge"), cc=c("abdc","efg","efgh")))
## $aa
## [1] 1 2 3 4
##
## $bb
## [1] "abc" "efg" "abhh" "effge"
##
## $cc
## [1] "abdc" "efg" "efgh"
listBatchReplace(lst1, search="efg", repl="EFG", silent=FALSE)
## $aa
## [1] "1" "2" "3" "4"
##
## $bb
## [1] "abc" "EFG" "abhh" "effge"
##
## $cc
## [1] "abdc" "EFG" "efgh"
Organize Values Into list and Sort By Names
Named numeric or character vectors can be organized into lists using
listGroupsByNames(), based on their names (only the part
before any extensions starting with a point gets considered). Of course,
other separators may be defined using the argument sep.
ser1 <- 1:7; names(ser1) <- c("AA","BB","AA.1","CC","AA.b","BB.e","A")
listGroupsByNames(ser1)
## $AA
## AA AA.1 AA.b
## 1 3 5
##
## $BB
## BB BB.e
## 2 6
##
## $CC
## CC
## 4
##
## $A
## A
## 7
If no names are present, the content of the vector itself will be
used as name :
listGroupsByNames((1:10)/5)
## listGroupsByNames : no names found in 'x' !!
## $`0`
## 0 0 0 0
## 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
##
## $`1`
## 1 1 1 1 1
## 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
##
## $`2`
## 2
## 2
Batch-filter List-Elements
In the view of object-oriented programming several methods produce
results integrated into lists or S3-objects (eg limma).
The function filterList() aims facilitating the filtering
of all elements of lists or S3-objects. List-elements with inappropriate
number of lines will be ignored.
set.seed(2020); dat1 <- round(runif(80),2)
list1 <- list(m1=matrix(dat1[1:40], ncol=8), m2=matrix(dat1[41:80], ncol=8), other=letters[1:8])
rownames(list1$m1) <- rownames(list1$m2) <- paste0("line",1:5)
# Note: the list-element list1$other has a length different to that of filt. Thus, it won't get filtered.
filterList(list1, list1$m1[,1] >0.4) # filter according to 1st column of $m1 ...
## $m1
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8]
## line1 0.65 0.07 0.76 0.54 0.20 0.17 0.96 0.37
## line3 0.62 0.39 0.83 0.65 0.82 0.75 0.96 0.93
## line4 0.48 0.00 0.42 0.55 0.94 0.45 0.95 0.52
##
## $m2
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8]
## line1 0.99 0.57 0.58 0.00 0.21 0.61 0.61 0.30
## line3 0.86 0.70 0.90 0.22 0.23 0.58 0.39 0.06
## line4 0.88 0.80 0.52 0.54 0.42 0.65 0.47 0.67
##
## $other
## [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h"
filterList(list1, list1$m1 >0.4)
## $m1
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8]
## line1 0.65 0.07 0.76 0.54 0.20 0.17 0.96 0.37
## line3 0.62 0.39 0.83 0.65 0.82 0.75 0.96 0.93
## line4 0.48 0.00 0.42 0.55 0.94 0.45 0.95 0.52
## line5 0.14 0.62 0.41 0.27 0.88 0.56 0.00 0.22
##
## $m2
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8]
## line1 0.99 0.57 0.58 0.00 0.21 0.61 0.61 0.30
## line3 0.86 0.70 0.90 0.22 0.23 0.58 0.39 0.06
## line4 0.88 0.80 0.52 0.54 0.42 0.65 0.47 0.67
## line5 0.62 0.17 0.83 0.49 0.86 0.17 0.53 0.72
##
## $other
## [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h"
Working With Redundant Data
\(_Semantics_\) : Please note, that
there are two ways of interpreting the term ‘unique’
:
In regular understanding one describes this way an event which
occurs only once, and thus does not occur/happen anywhere else.
The command unique() will eliminate redundant
entries to obtain a shorter ‘unique’ output vector, ie in the resultant
vector all values/content (values) occur only once. However, from the
result of unique() you cannot tell any more which ones were not
unique initially !
In some applications (eg proteomics) initial identifiers (IDs) may
occur multiple times in the data and we frequently need to identify
events/values that occur only once, as the first meaning of
‘unique’. This package provides (additional) functions to
easily distinguish values occurring just once (ie unique) from
those occurring multiple times. Furthermore, there are functions to
rename/remove/combine replicated elements, eg
correctToUnique() or nonAmbiguousNum(), so
that no elements or lines of data get lost.
Identify What Is Repeated (and Where Repeated Do Occur)
## some text toy data
tr <- c("li0","n",NA,NA, rep(c("li2","li3"),2), rep("n",4))
The function table() (from the package base) is
very useful get some insights when working with smaller objects, but may
be slow to handle very large objects. As mentioned, unique()
will make everything unique, and afterwards you won’t know any more who
was unique in the first place ! The function duplicated()
(also from package base) helps us getting the information who is
repeated.
table(tr)
## tr
## li0 li2 li3 n
## 1 2 2 5
unique(tr)
## [1] "li0" "n" NA "li2" "li3"
duplicated(tr, fromLast=FALSE)
## [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
aa <- c(11:16,NA,14:12,NA,14)
names(aa) <- letters[1:length(aa)]
aa
## a b c d e f g h i j k l
## 11 12 13 14 15 16 NA 14 13 12 NA 14
findRepeated() (from this package) will return the
position/index (and content/value) of repeated elements. However, the
output in form of a list is not very convenient to the human reader.
findRepeated(aa)
## $`12`
## [1] 2 10
##
## $`13`
## [1] 3 9
##
## $`14`
## [1] 4 8 12
firstOfRepeated() tells the index of the first instance
of repeated elements, which elements you need to make the vector
‘unique’, and which elements get stripped off when making unique. Please
note, that NA (no matter if they occure once or more times) are
automatically in the part suggested to be removed.
firstOfRepeated(aa)
## $indRepeated
## 12 13 14
## 2 3 4
##
## $indUniq
## a b c d e f
## 1 2 3 4 5 6
##
## $indRedund
## g h i j k l
## 7 8 9 10 11 12
aa[firstOfRepeated(aa)$indUniq] # only unique with their names
## a b c d e f
## 11 12 13 14 15 16
unique(aa) # unique() does not return any names !
## [1] 11 12 13 14 15 16 NA
Correct Vector To Unique (While Maintaining The Original Vector
Length)
If necessary, a counter can be added to non-unique entries, thus no
individual values get eliminated and the length and order of the
resultant object maintains the same using
correctToUnique().
This is of importance when assigning rownames to a data.frame :
Assigning redundant values/text as rownames of a data.frame will result
in an error !
correctToUnique(aa)
## a b c d e f g h i j k
## "11" "12_1" "13_1" "14_1" "15" "16" "NA_1" "14_2" "13_2" "12_2" "NA_2"
## l
## "14_3"
correctToUnique(aa, sep=".", NAenum=FALSE) # keep NAs (ie without transforming to character)
## a b c d e f g h i j k
## "11" "12.1" "13.1" "14.1" "15" "16" NA "14.2" "13.2" "12.2" NA
## l
## "14.3"
You see from the last example above, that this function has an
argument for controlling enumerating elements.
Mark Any Duplicated (ie Ambiguous) Elements by Changing Their Names
(and Separate from Unqiue)
First, the truly unique values are reported and then the first
occurance of repeated elements is given, NA instances get
ignored. This can be done using nonAmbiguousNum() which
maintains the length of the initial character vector.
unique(aa) # names are lost
## [1] 11 12 13 14 15 16 NA
nonAmbiguousNum(aa)
## a e f amb_b amb_c
## 11 15 16 12 13
nonAmbiguousNum(aa, uniq=FALSE, asLi=TRUE) # separate in list unique and repeated
## $unique
## a e f
## 11 15 16
##
## $ambig
## amb_b amb_c
## 12 13
Compare Multiple Vectors And Sort By Number Of Common/Repeated
Values/Words
The main aim of the function sortByNRepeated() is
allowing to compare multiple vectors for common values/words and
providing an output sorted by number of repeats.
Suppose 3 persons are asked which cities they wanted to visit. Then
we would like to make a counting of the most frequently cited cities.
Here we consider individual choices as equally ranked. By default
intra-repeats are eliminated.
cities <- c("Bangkok","London","Paris", "Singapore","New York City", "Istambul","Delhi","Rome","Dubai")
sortByNRepeated(x=cities[c(1:4)], y=cities[c(2:3,5:8)])
## $`1`
## [1] "Bangkok" "Delhi" "Istambul" "New York City"
## [5] "Rome" "Singapore"
##
## $`2`
## [1] "London" "Paris"
## or (unlimited) multiple inputs via list
choices1 <- list(Mary=cities[c(1:4)], Olivia=cities[c(2:3,5:8)], Paul=cities[c(5:3,9,5)]) # Note : Paul cited NYC twice !
table(unlist(choices1))
##
## Bangkok Delhi Dubai Istambul London
## 1 1 1 1 2
## New York City Paris Rome Singapore
## 3 3 1 2
sortByNRepeated(choices1)
## $`1`
## [1] "Bangkok" "Delhi" "Dubai" "Istambul" "Rome"
##
## $`2`
## [1] "London" "New York City" "Singapore"
##
## $`3`
## [1] "Paris"
sortByNRepeated(choices1, filterIntraRep=FALSE) # without correcting multiple citation of NYC by Paul
## $`1`
## [1] "Bangkok" "Delhi" "Dubai" "Istambul" "Rome"
##
## $`2`
## [1] "London" "Singapore"
##
## $`3`
## [1] "New York City" "Paris"
Combine Multiple Matrixes Where Some Column-Names Are The Same
Here, it is supposed that you want to join 2 or more matrixes
describing different properties of the same collection of individuals
(as rows). Common column-names are interpreted that their respective
information should be combined (either as average or as sum). This can
be done using cbindNR() :
## First we'll make some toy data :
(ma1 <- matrix(1:6, ncol=3, dimnames=list(1:2,LETTERS[3:1])))
## C B A
## 1 1 3 5
## 2 2 4 6
(ma2 <- matrix(11:16, ncol=3, dimnames=list(1:2,LETTERS[3:5])))
## C D E
## 1 11 13 15
## 2 12 14 16
## now we can join 2 or more matrixes
cbindNR(ma1, ma2, summarizeAs="mean") # average of both columns 'C'
## cbindNR : treating 5 different (types of) columns : C B A D E
## cbindNR : sorting columns of output
## A B C D E
## 1 5 3 6 13 15
## 2 6 4 7 14 16
Filter Matrix To Keep Only First Of Repeated Lines
This ressembles to the functioning of unique(), but applies
to a user-specified column of the matrix.
(mat1 <- matrix(c(1:6, rep(1:3,1:3)), ncol=2, dimnames=list(letters[1:6],LETTERS[1:2])))
## A B
## a 1 1
## b 2 2
## c 3 2
## d 4 3
## e 5 3
## f 6 3
The function firstLineOfDat() allows to access/extract
the first line of repeated instances.
firstLineOfDat(mat1, refCol=2)
## A B
## a 1 1
## b 2 2
## d 4 3
This function was rather designed for dealing with character input,
it allows concatenating all columns and to remove redundant.
mat2 <- matrix(c("e","n","a","n","z","z","n","z","z","b",
"","n","c","n","","","n","","","z"), ncol=2)
firstOfRepLines(mat2, out="conc")
## [1] "e" "nn" "ac" "z" "bz"
# or as index :
firstOfRepLines(mat2)
## [1] 1 2 3 5 10
Filter To Unique Column-Content Of Matrix, Add Counter And
Concatenated Information
(df1 <- data.frame(cbind(xA=letters[1:5], xB=c("h","h","f","e","f"), xC=LETTERS[1:5])))
## xA xB xC
## 1 a h A
## 2 b h B
## 3 c f C
## 4 d e D
## 5 e f E
The function nonredDataFrame() offers to include a
counter of redundant instances encountered (for 1st column specified)
:
nonredDataFrame(df1, useCol=c("xB","xC"))
## xA xB xC nSamePep concID
## 1 a h A 2 C//E
## 3 c f C 2 A//B
## 4 d e D 1 D
# without counter or concatenating
df1[which(!duplicated(df1[,2])),]
## xA xB xC
## 1 a h A
## 3 c f C
## 4 d e D
# or
df1[firstOfRepLines(df1,useCol=2),]
## xA xB xC
## 1 a h A
## 3 c f C
## 4 d e D
Get First Of Repeated By Column
mat2 <- cbind(no=as.character(1:20), seq=sample(LETTERS[1:15], 20, repl=TRUE),
ty=sample(c("full","Nter","inter"),20,repl=TRUE), ambig=rep(NA,20), seqNa=1:20)
(mat2uniq <- get1stOfRepeatedByCol(mat2, sortBy="seq", sortSupl="ty"))
## no seq ty ambig seqNa
## [1,] "6" "M" "Nter" NA "6"
## [2,] "11" "C" "inter" NA "11"
## [3,] "12" "N" "Nter" NA "12"
## [4,] "17" "J" "full" NA "17"
## [5,] "18" "A" "full" NA "18"
## [6,] "19" "O" "Nter" NA "19"
## [7,] "7" "B" "Nter" "TRUE" "_7"
## [8,] "10" "D" "full" "TRUE" "_10"
## [9,] "8" "E" "full" "TRUE" "_8"
## [10,] "9" "F" "full" "TRUE" "_9"
## [11,] "13" "G" "Nter" "TRUE" "_13"
## [12,] "3" "H" "Nter" "TRUE" "_3"
# the values from column 'seq' are indeed unique
table(mat2uniq[,"seq"])
##
## A B C D E F G H J M N O
## 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
# This will return all first repeated (may be >1) but without furter sorting
# along column 'ty' neither marking in comumn 'ambig').
mat2[which(duplicated(mat2[,2],fromLast=FALSE)),]
## no seq ty ambig seqNa
## [1,] "5" "H" "Nter" NA "5"
## [2,] "8" "E" "full" NA "8"
## [3,] "9" "F" "full" NA "9"
## [4,] "13" "G" "Nter" NA "13"
## [5,] "14" "D" "full" NA "14"
## [6,] "15" "D" "full" NA "15"
## [7,] "16" "B" "Nter" NA "16"
## [8,] "20" "F" "full" NA "20"
Combine Replicates From List To Matrix
lst2 <- list(aa_1x=matrix(1:12, nrow=4, byrow=TRUE), ab_2x=matrix(24:13, nrow=4, byrow=TRUE))
combineReplFromListToMatr(lst2)
## $a
## 1
## [1,] 1
## [2,] 4
## [3,] 7
## [4,] 10
## [5,] 2
## [6,] 5
## [7,] 8
## [8,] 11
## [9,] 3
## [10,] 6
## [11,] 9
## [12,] 12
##
## $b
## 2
## [1,] 24
## [2,] 21
## [3,] 18
## [4,] 15
## [5,] 23
## [6,] 20
## [7,] 17
## [8,] 14
## [9,] 22
## [10,] 19
## [11,] 16
## [12,] 13
Combine Redundant Lines From List with (Multiple) Matrix According
to Reference
The function combineRedundLinesInList() provides help
for combining/summarizing lines of numeric data which may be summaried
according to reference vector or matrix (part of the same input-list).
Initial data and reference will be aligned based on rownames and the
content of reference (or the column specified by ).
x1 <- list(quant=matrix(11:34, ncol=3, dimnames=list(letters[8:1], LETTERS[11:13])),
annot=matrix(paste0(LETTERS[c(1:4,6,3:5)],LETTERS[c(1:4,6,3:5)]), ncol=1,
dimnames=list(paste(letters[1:8]),"xx")) )
combineRedundLinesInList(lst=x1, refNa="annot", datNa="quant", refColNa="xx")
## $quant
## K L M
## AA 11.0 19.0 27.0
## BB 12.0 20.0 28.0
## CC 14.5 22.5 30.5
## DD 15.5 23.5 31.5
## EE 18.0 26.0 34.0
## FF 15.0 23.0 31.0
##
## $annot
## xx xx2
## [1,] "AA" "a"
## [2,] "BB" "b"
## [3,] "CC" "c,f"
## [4,] "DD" "d,g"
## [5,] "EE" "h"
## [6,] "FF" "e"
Non-redundant Lines Of Matrix
mat4 <- matrix(rep(c(1,1:3,3,1),2), ncol=2, dimnames=list(letters[1:6],LETTERS[1:2]))
nonRedundLines(mat4)
## A B
## a 1 1
## c 2 2
## d 3 3
## f 1 1
Filter For Unique Elements /2
# input: c and dd are repeated :
filtSizeUniq(list(A="a", B=c("b","bb","c"), D=c("dd","d","ddd","c")), filtUn=TRUE, minSi=NULL)
## filtSizeUniq : 2 out of 8 peptides redundant
## $A
## A
## "a"
##
## $B
## B.1 B.2
## "b" "bb"
##
## $D
## D.1 D.2 D.3
## "dd" "d" "ddd"
# here a,b,c and dd are repeated :
filtSizeUniq(list(A="a", B=c("b","bb","c"), D=c("dd","d","ddd","c")), ref=c(letters[c(1:26,1:3)],
"dd","dd","bb","ddd"), filtUn=TRUE, minSi=NULL)
## filtSizeUniq : 8 out of 8 peptides redundant
## $A
## character(0)
##
## $B
## character(0)
##
## $D
## character(0)
Make Non-redundant Matrix
t3 <- data.frame(ref=rep(11:15,3), tx=letters[1:15],
matrix(round(runif(30,-3,2),1), nc=2), stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
# First we split the data.frame in list
by(t3,t3[,1], function(x) x)
## t3[, 1]: 11
## ref tx X1 X2
## 1 11 a 0.4 -1.1
## 6 11 f 0.6 1.0
## 11 11 k 0.1 1.2
## ------------------------------------------------------------
## t3[, 1]: 12
## ref tx X1 X2
## 2 12 b 2.0 -0.4
## 7 12 g -0.3 1.8
## 12 12 l -1.4 0.3
## ------------------------------------------------------------
## t3[, 1]: 13
## ref tx X1 X2
## 3 13 c 0.8 -1.6
## 8 13 h 0.8 -2.4
## 13 13 m 0.9 1.8
## ------------------------------------------------------------
## t3[, 1]: 14
## ref tx X1 X2
## 4 14 d 1.7 0.7
## 9 14 i -1.6 -2.6
## 14 14 n 1.4 -1.1
## ------------------------------------------------------------
## t3[, 1]: 15
## ref tx X1 X2
## 5 15 e -0.9 0.4
## 10 15 j -1.7 0.0
## 15 15 o -1.2 -1.8
t(sapply(by(t3,t3[,1],function(x) x), summarizeCols, me="maxAbsOfRef"))
## ref tx X1 X2
## 11 11 "k" 0.1 1.2
## 12 12 "g" -0.3 1.8
## 13 13 "h" 0.8 -2.4
## 14 14 "i" -1.6 -2.6
## 15 15 "o" -1.2 -1.8
(xt3 <- makeNRedMatr(t3, summ="mean", iniID="ref"))
## makeNRedMatr : Common summarization method 'mean', run as batch
## makeNRedMatr : Summarize redundant based on col 'ref' using method(s) : 'mean', 'mean', 'mean' and 'mean' yielding 4 cols
## ID ref tx X1 X2 nRedLi
## 11 11 11 f 0.3666667 0.3666667 3
## 12 12 12 g 0.1000000 0.5666667 3
## 13 13 13 h 0.8333333 -0.7333333 3
## 14 14 14 i 0.5000000 -1.0000000 3
## 15 15 15 j -1.2666667 -0.4666667 3
(xt3 <- makeNRedMatr(t3, summ=unlist(list(X1="maxAbsOfRef")), iniID="ref"))
## makeNRedMatr : Summarize redundant based on col 'ref' using method(s) : 'maxAbsOfRef' and col 'X1' yielding 4 cols
## ref tx X1 X2 nRedLi
## 11 11 f 0.6 1.0 3
## 12 12 b 2.0 -0.4 3
## 13 13 m 0.9 1.8 3
## 14 14 d 1.7 0.7 3
## 15 15 j -1.7 0.0 3
Example : Summarize table for longest of transcripts
In the previous example for each subgroup a summarization was
calculated. In other cases you may just want to select a line according
to values from a single column. Suppose you want to select the line
corresponding to the longest transcript.
set.seed(2024)
df2 <- data.frame(transcrID=paste("TrID", 101:124, sep=""), geneID=paste("geID",rep(201:206,each=4)),
geneLe=round(runif(24, min=50, max=1500)), a=101:124, b=224:201)
df2 <- df2[-1*c(1,4:7,12:15),]
(dfLongest <- makeNRedMatr(df2, summ=unlist(list(X1="maxOfRef")), iniID="geneID"))
## makeNRedMatr : Which column to use with 'maxOfRef' not specified, using last numeric 'b'
## makeNRedMatr : Summarize redundant based on col 'geneID' using method(s) : 'maxOfRef' and col 'b' yielding 5 cols
## transcrID geneID geneLe a b nRedLi
## geID 201 TrID102 geID 201 515 102 223 2
## geID 202 TrID108 geID 202 490 108 217 1
## geID 203 TrID109 geID 203 1321 109 216 3
## geID 204 TrID116 geID 204 1271 116 209 1
## geID 205 TrID117 geID 205 210 117 208 4
## geID 206 TrID121 geID 206 119 121 204 4
summarizeCols(df2[1:2,c(1:5,3)], me="min")
## transcrID geneID geneLe a b geneLe.1
## out "TrID102" "geID 201" " 515" "102" "222" " 515"
summarizeCols(df2[1:2,c(1:5,3)], me="mean")
## transcrID geneID geneLe a b geneLe.1
## 2 TrID102 geID 201 776 102.5 222.5 776
summarizeCols(df2[1:2,c(1:5,3)], me="maxOfRef")
## transcrID geneID geneLe a b geneLe.1
## 3 TrID103 geID 201 1037 103 222 1037
summarizeCols(df2[1:6,c(1:5,3)], me="maxOfRef")
## transcrID geneID geneLe a b geneLe.1
## 11 TrID111 geID 203 1358 111 214 1358
(xt3 <- makeNRedMatr(t3, summ=unlist(list(X1="maxOfRef")), iniID=c("ref")))
## makeNRedMatr : Summarize redundant based on col 'ref' using method(s) : 'maxOfRef' and col 'X1' yielding 4 cols
## ref tx X1 X2 nRedLi
## 11 11 f 0.6 1.0 3
## 12 12 b 2.0 -0.4 3
## 13 13 m 0.9 1.8 3
## 14 14 d 1.7 0.7 3
## 15 15 e -0.9 0.4 3
Combine/Reduce Redundant Lines Based On Specified Column
matr <- matrix(c(letters[1:6],"h","h","f","e",LETTERS[1:5]), ncol=3,
dimnames=list(letters[11:15],c("xA","xB","xC")))
combineRedBasedOnCol(matr, colN="xB")
## xA xB xC
## 2 "a,d" "f" "A,D"
## 3 "b,c" "h" "B,C"
## 1 "e" "e" "E"
combineRedBasedOnCol(rbind(matr[1,],matr), colN="xB")
## xA xB xC
## 2 "a,d" "f" "A,D"
## 3 "b,c" "h" "B,C"
## 1 "e" "e" "E"
Convert Matrix (eg With Redundant) Row-Names To data.frame
x <- 1
dat1 <- matrix(1:10, ncol=2)
rownames(dat1) <- letters[c(1:3,2,5)]
## as.data.frame(dat1) ... would result in an error
convMatr2df(dat1)
## ID X1 X2
## a a 1 6
## b_1 b 2 7
## c c 3 8
## b_2 b 4 9
## e e 5 10
convMatr2df(data.frame(a=as.character((1:3)/2), b=LETTERS[1:3], c=1:3))
## a b c
## 1 0.5 A 1
## 2 1.0 B 2
## 3 1.5 C 3
tmp <- data.frame(a=as.character((1:3)/2), b=LETTERS[1:3], c=1:3, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
convMatr2df(tmp)
## a b c
## 1 0.5 A 1
## 2 1.0 B 2
## 3 1.5 C 3
tmp <- data.frame(a=as.character((1:3)/2), b=1:3, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
convMatr2df(tmp)
## a b
## 1 0.5 1
## 2 1.0 2
## 3 1.5 3
Find And Combine Points Located Very Close In X/Y Space
set.seed(2013)
datT2 <- matrix(round(rnorm(200)+3,1), ncol=2, dimnames=list(paste("li",1:100,sep=""),
letters[23:24]))
# (mimick) some short and longer names for each line
inf2 <- cbind(sh=paste(rep(letters[1:4],each=26), rep(letters,4),1:(26*4),sep=""),
lo=paste(rep(LETTERS[1:4],each=26), rep(LETTERS,4), 1:(26*4), ",",
rep(letters[sample.int(26)],4), rep(letters[sample.int(26)],4), sep=""))[1:100,]
## We'll use this to test :
head(datT2, n=10)
## w x
## li1 2.9 3.7
## li2 3.8 3.3
## li3 2.3 3.3
## li4 4.4 3.1
## li5 4.5 1.8
## li6 0.4 2.4
## li7 3.7 3.3
## li8 3.3 4.0
## li9 5.0 4.1
## li10 1.6 1.1
## let's assign to each pair of x & y values a 'cluster' (column _clu_, the column _combInf_ tells us which lines/indexes are in this cluster)
head(combineOverlapInfo(datT2, disThr=0.03), n=10)
## w x combInf clu isComb
## li1 2.9 3.7 1+16+22+47+91 1 TRUE
## li2 3.8 3.3 2+7+48+54 2 TRUE
## li3 2.3 3.3 3+66+92 3 TRUE
## li4 4.4 3.1 4 52 FALSE
## li5 4.5 1.8 5 53 FALSE
## li6 0.4 2.4 6 54 FALSE
## li7 3.7 3.3 2+7+48+54 2 TRUE
## li8 3.3 4.0 8+100 4 TRUE
## li9 5.0 4.1 9 55 FALSE
## li10 1.6 1.1 10 56 FALSE
## it is also possible to rather display names (eg gene or protein-names) instead of index values
head(combineOverlapInfo(datT2, suplI=inf2[,2], disThr=0.03), n=10)
## w x combInf clu isComb
## li1 2.9 3.7 AA1+AP16+AV22+BU47+DM91 1 TRUE
## li2 3.8 3.3 AB2+AG7+BV48+CB54 2 TRUE
## li3 2.3 3.3 AC3+CN66+DN92 3 TRUE
## li4 4.4 3.1 AD4,ww 52 FALSE
## li5 4.5 1.8 AE5,aj 53 FALSE
## li6 0.4 2.4 AF6,nl 54 FALSE
## li7 3.7 3.3 AB2+AG7+BV48+CB54 2 TRUE
## li8 3.3 4.0 AH8+DV100 4 TRUE
## li9 5.0 4.1 AI9,ic 55 FALSE
## li10 1.6 1.1 AJ10,ee 56 FALSE
Bin And Summarize Values According To Their Names
dat <- 11:19
names(dat) <- letters[c(6:3,2:4,8,3)]
## Here the names are not unique.
## Thus, the values can be binned by their (non-unique) names and a representative values calculated.
## Let's make a 'datUniq' with the mean of each group of values :
datUniq <- round(tapply(dat, names(dat), mean),1)
## now we propagate the mean values to the full vector
getValuesByUnique(dat, datUniq)
## f e d c b c d h c
## 11.0 12.0 15.0 16.3 15.0 16.3 15.0 18.0 16.3
cbind(ini=dat,firstOfRep=getValuesByUnique(dat, datUniq),
indexUniq=getValuesByUnique(dat, datUniq, asIn=TRUE))
## ini firstOfRep indexUniq
## f 11 11.0 5
## e 12 12.0 4
## d 13 15.0 3
## c 14 16.3 2
## b 15 15.0 1
## c 16 16.3 2
## d 17 15.0 3
## h 18 18.0 6
## c 19 16.3 2
Regrouping Simultaneaously by Two Factors
For example, if you wish to create group-labels considering the eye-
and hair-color of a small group students (supposed a sort of controlled
vocabulary was used), the function combineByEitherFactor()
will help. So basically, this is an empiric segmentation-approach for
two categorical variables. Please note, that with large data-sets and
very disperse data this approach will not provide great results. In the
example below we’ll attempt to ‘cluster’ according to columns
nn and qq, the resultant cluster number can be found
in column grp.
nn <- rep(c("a","e","b","c","d","g","f"),c(3,1,2,2,1,2,1))
qq <- rep(c("m","n","p","o","q"),c(2,1,1,4,4))
nq <- cbind(nn,qq)[c(4,2,9,11,6,10,7,3,5,1,12,8),]
## Here we consider 2 columns 'nn' and 'qq' whe trying to regroup common values
## (eg value 'a' from column 'nn' and value 'o' from 'qq')
combineByEitherFactor(nq, 1, 2, nBy=FALSE)
## nn qq grp
## m2 "a" "m" "1"
## q2 "f" "q" "3"
## q1 "d" "q" "3"
## o2 "b" "o" "2"
## p "e" "p" "4"
## o4 "c" "o" "2"
## q4 "g" "q" "3"
## n "a" "n" "1"
## m1 "a" "m" "1"
## q3 "g" "q" "3"
## o1 "b" "o" "2"
## o3 "c" "o" "2"
The argument nBy simply allows adding an additional column
with the group/cluster-number.
## the same, but including n by group/cluster
combineByEitherFactor(nq, 1, 2, nBy=TRUE)
## nn qq grp nGrp
## m2 "a" "m" "1" "3"
## q2 "f" "q" "3" "4"
## q1 "d" "q" "3" "4"
## o2 "b" "o" "2" "4"
## p "e" "p" "4" "1"
## o4 "c" "o" "2" "4"
## q4 "g" "q" "3" "4"
## n "a" "n" "1" "3"
## m1 "a" "m" "1" "3"
## q3 "g" "q" "3" "4"
## o1 "b" "o" "2" "4"
## o3 "c" "o" "2" "4"
## Not running further iterations works faster, but you may not reach 'convergence' immediately
combineByEitherFactor(nq,1, 2, nBy=FALSE)
## nn qq grp
## m2 "a" "m" "1"
## q2 "f" "q" "3"
## q1 "d" "q" "3"
## o2 "b" "o" "2"
## p "e" "p" "4"
## o4 "c" "o" "2"
## q4 "g" "q" "3"
## n "a" "n" "1"
## m1 "a" "m" "1"
## q3 "g" "q" "3"
## o1 "b" "o" "2"
## o3 "c" "o" "2"
## another example
mm <- rep(c("a","b","c","d","e"), c(3,4,2,3,1))
pp <- rep(c("m","n","o","p","q"), c(2,2,2,2,5))
combineByEitherFactor(cbind(mm,pp), 1, 2, con=FALSE, nBy=TRUE)
## combineByEitherFactor : did not reach convergence at 2nd pass
## mm pp grp nGrp
## m1 "a" "m" "1" "4"
## m2 "a" "m" "1" "4"
## n1 "a" "n" "1" "4"
## n2 "b" "n" "1" "4"
## o1 "b" "o" "2" "4"
## o2 "b" "o" "2" "4"
## p1 "b" "p" "2" "4"
## p2 "c" "p" "2" "4"
## q1 "c" "q" "3" "5"
## q2 "d" "q" "3" "5"
## q3 "d" "q" "3" "5"
## q4 "d" "q" "3" "5"
## q5 "e" "q" "3" "5"
Batch Replacing Of Values Or Character-Strings
The function multiCharReplace() facilitates multiple
replacements in a vector, matrix or data.frame.
# replace character content
x1 <- c("ab","bc","cd","efg","ghj")
multiCharReplace(x1, cbind(old=c("bc","efg"), new=c("BBCC","EF")))
## [1] "ab" "BBCC" "cd" "EF" "ghj"
# works also on matrix and/or to replace numeric content :
x3 <- matrix(11:16, ncol=2)
multiCharReplace(x3, cbind(12:13,112:113))
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 11 14
## [2,] 112 15
## [3,] 113 16
Sometimes data get imported using different encoding for what should
be interpreted as FALSE and TRUE :
# replace and return logical vactor
x2 <- c("High","n/a","High","High","Low")
multiCharReplace(x2,cbind(old=c("n/a","Low","High"), new=c(NA,FALSE,TRUE)), convTo="logical")
## [1] TRUE NA TRUE TRUE FALSE
Multi-to-multi Matching Of (Concatenated) Terms
The function allows to split (if necessary, using
strsplit()) two vectors and compare each isolated tag (eg
identifyer) from the 1st vector/object against each isolated tag from
the second vector/object. This runs like a loop of one to many
comparisons. The basic output is a list with indexes of which element of
the 1st vector/object has matches in the 2nd vector/object. Since this
is not convenient to the human reader, tabular output can be created,
too.
aa <- c("m","k","j; aa","m; aa; bb; o","n; dd","aa","cc")
bb <- c("aa","dd","aa; bb; q","p; cc")
## result as list of indexes
(bOnA <- multiMatch(aa, bb, method="asIndex")) # match bb on aa
## $`1`
## named integer(0)
##
## $`2`
## named integer(0)
##
## $`3`
## aa aa
## 1 3
##
## $`4`
## aa aa bb
## 1 3 3
##
## $`5`
## dd
## 2
##
## $`6`
## aa aa
## 1 3
##
## $`7`
## cc
## 4
## more convenient to the human reader
(bOnA <- multiMatch(aa, bb)) # match bb on aa
## x x.Ind TagBest y.IndBest y.IndAll y.Match y.Adj
## 1 m 1 <NA> NA <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 2 k 2 <NA> NA <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 3 j; aa 3 aa 1 1; 3 aa j; aa
## 4 m; aa; bb; o 4 aa 3 1; 3; 3 aa; bb; q m; aa; bb; o
## 5 n; dd 5 dd 2 2 dd n; dd
## 6 aa 6 aa 1 1; 3 aa aa
## 7 cc 7 cc 4 4 p; cc cc
(bOnA <- multiMatch(aa, bb, method="matchedL")) # match bb on aa
## $`1`
## named integer(0)
##
## $`2`
## named integer(0)
##
## $`3`
## aa aa
## 1 3
##
## $`4`
## aa aa bb
## 1 3 3
##
## $`5`
## dd
## 2
##
## $`6`
## aa aa
## 1 3
##
## $`7`
## cc
## 4
Comparing Global Patterns
In most programming languages it is fairly easy to compare
exact content of character vectors or factors with unordered
levels. However, sometimes - due to semantic issues - some people may
call a color ‘purple’ while others call it ‘violet’. Thus, without using
controled vocabulary the exact terms may vary.
Here, let’s address the case, where no dictionaries of controled
vocabulary are available for substituting equivalent terms. Thus, we’ll
compare 4 vectors of equal length and check if the words/letters used
could be substituted to result in the first vector. Vectors aa
and ab have the same global pattern, ie after repeating a word
twice it moves to another word. Vectors ac and ad have
different general patterns, either with alternating words or falling
back to a word previsously used.
Based and extended on a post on stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71353218/extracting-flexible-general-patterns/
:
aa <- letters[rep(c(3:1,4), each=2)]
ab <- letters[rep(c(5,8:6), each=2)] # 'same general' pattern to aa
ac <- letters[c(1:2,1:3,3:4,4)] # NOT 'same general' pattern to any other
ad <- letters[c(6:8,8:6,7:6)] # NOT 'same general' pattern to any other
The basic pattern can be extracted combining match() and
unique():
## get global patterns
cbind(aa= match(aa, unique(aa)),
ab= match(ab, unique(ab)),
ac= match(ac, unique(ac)),
ad= match(ad, unique(ad)) )
## aa ab ac ad
## [1,] 1 1 1 1
## [2,] 1 1 2 2
## [3,] 2 2 1 3
## [4,] 2 2 2 3
## [5,] 3 3 3 2
## [6,] 3 3 3 1
## [7,] 4 4 4 2
## [8,] 4 4 4 1
Let’s make a data.frame with the annotation toy-data from above. Each
line is supposed to represent a sample, and the columns show different
aspects of annotation.
bb <- data.frame(ind=1:length(aa), a=aa, b=ab, c=ac, d=ad)
Via the function replicateStructure() is it possible to
compare annotation as different columns for equivalent global
patterns.
By default, this function excludes all columns not designating any
replicates, like the numbers in the first column ($ind). Also it will
try to find the column with the median number of levels, when comparing
to all other columns.
The output is a list with $col inidicating which column(s)
may be used, $lev for the correpsonding global pattern,
$meth for the method finally used and $allCols for
documenting the global pattern in each column (whether it was selected
or not).
replicateStructure(bb)
## $col
## a
## 2
##
## $lev
## c c b b a a d d
## 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4
##
## $meth
## [1] "single median col"
Besides, it is also possible to combine all columns if one considers
they contribute complementary substructures of the overal
annotation.
replicateStructure(bb, method="combAll")
## $col
## a c d
## 2 4 5
##
## $lev
## c_a_f c_b_g b_a_h b_b_h a_c_g a_c_f d_d_g d_d_f
## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
##
## $meth
## [1] "comb all col"
However, when combining multiple columns it may happen -like in the
example above- that finally no more lines remain being considered as
replicates.
This can also be found when one column describes the groups and
another gives the order of the replicates therein. However, for calling
a (standard) statistical test it may be necessary exclude these
replicate-numbers to designate the groups of replicates.
To overcome the problem of loosing the understanding of
replicate-structure when combining all factors, it is possible to look
for non-orthogonal structures, ie to try excluding columns which (after
combining) would suggest no replicates after combining all columns. See
the example below :
replicateStructure(bb, method="combNonOrth")
## $col
## a d
## 2 5
##
## $lev
## c_f c_g b_h b_h a_g a_f d_g d_f
## 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7
##
## $meth
## [1] "combNonOrth col"
Search For Similar (Numeric) Values
This section addresses values that are not truly identical
but may differ only in the very last digit(s) and thus may be in a
pragmatic view get considered and treated as ‘about the same’. The
simplest approach would be to round values and then look for identical
values. The functions presented here (like
checkSimValueInSer()) offer this type of search in a
convenient way.
Of course the user must define a threshold for how similar may
retained as positive (in the the logical vector returned). With the
function checkSimValueInSer() this threshod must be given as ppm
(parts per million).
va1 <- c(4:7,7,7,7,7,8:10) + (1:11)/28600
checkSimValueInSer(va1, ppm=5)
## [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE
data.frame(va=sort(va1), simil=checkSimValueInSer(va1))
## va simil
## 1 4.000035 FALSE
## 2 5.000070 FALSE
## 3 6.000105 FALSE
## 4 7.000140 TRUE
## 5 7.000175 TRUE
## 6 7.000210 TRUE
## 7 7.000245 TRUE
## 8 7.000280 TRUE
## 9 8.000315 FALSE
## 10 9.000350 FALSE
## 11 10.000385 FALSE
Find Similar Numeric Values Of Two Columns Of A Matrix
The search for similar values may be preformed as absolute distance
or as ‘ppm’ (as it is eg usual in proteomics when comparing measured and
theoretically expected mass).
aA <- c(11:17); bB <- c(12.001,13.999); cC <- c(16.2,8,9,12.5,15.9,13.5,15.7,14.1,5)
(cloMa <- findCloseMatch(x=aA, y=cC, com="diff", lim=0.5, sor=FALSE))
## $x2
## y4
## 0.5
##
## $x3
## y4 y6
## -0.5 0.5
##
## $x4
## y6 y8
## -0.5 0.1
##
## $x6
## y1 y5 y7
## 0.2 -0.1 -0.3
The result of findCloseMatch() is a list organized by each
‘x’, telling all instances of ‘y’ found within the distance tolerance
given by lim. Using closeMatchMatrix() the result
obtained above, can be presented in a more convenient format for the
human eye.
# all matches (of 2d arg) to/within limit for each of 1st arg ('x'); 'y' ..to 2nd arg = cC
# first let's display only one single closest/best hit
(maAa <- closeMatchMatrix(cloMa, aA, cC, lim=TRUE)) #
## id.aA aA id.cC cC disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 3 13 4 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 1 2
## [3,] 3 13 6 13.5 -0.5 -37037.0 2 1 2
## [4,] 4 14 8 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 2 1 1
## [5,] 6 16 5 15.9 0.1 6289.3 3 1 1
Using the argument limitToBest=FALSE we can display all
distances within the limits imposed, some values/points may occur
multiple times. For example, value number 4 of ‘cC’ (=12.5) or value
number 3 of ‘aA’ (=13) now occur multiple times…
(maAa <- closeMatchMatrix(cloMa, aA, cC, lim=FALSE,origN=TRUE)) #
## id.aA aA id.cC cC disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 3 13 4 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 1 2
## [3,] 3 13 6 13.5 -0.5 -37037.0 2 1 2
## [4,] 4 14 6 13.5 0.5 37037.0 2 0 0
## [5,] 4 14 8 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 2 1 1
## [6,] 6 16 7 15.7 0.3 19108.0 3 0 0
## [7,] 6 16 5 15.9 0.1 6289.3 3 1 1
## [8,] 6 16 1 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 3 0 0
(maAa <- closeMatchMatrix(cloMa, cbind(valA=81:87, aA), cbind(valC=91:99, cC), colM=2,
colP=2, lim=FALSE))
## closeMatchMatrix : Reset argument 'origNa' to FALSE since names of 'predMatr' and/or 'measMatr' result of formula and would be too long
## id.pred valA aA id.meas valC cC disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 82 12 4 94 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 3 83 13 4 94 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 1 2
## [3,] 3 83 13 6 96 13.5 -0.5 -37037.0 2 1 2
## [4,] 4 84 14 6 96 13.5 0.5 37037.0 2 0 0
## [5,] 4 84 14 8 98 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 2 1 1
## [6,] 6 86 16 7 97 15.7 0.3 19108.0 3 0 0
## [7,] 6 86 16 5 95 15.9 0.1 6289.3 3 1 1
## [8,] 6 86 16 1 91 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 3 0 0
(maAa <- closeMatchMatrix(cloMa, cbind(aA,valA=81:87), cC, lim=FALSE, deb=TRUE)) #
## closeMatchMatrix : .. xxidentToMatr2a
## closeMatchMatrix : .. xxidentToMatr2c
## closeMatchMatrix : Reset argument 'origNa' to FALSE since names of 'predMatr' and/or 'measMatr' result of formula and would be too long
## closeMatchMatrix : .. xxidentToMatr2d
## closeMatchMatrix : .. xxidentToMatr2e
## closeMatchMatrix : .. xxidentToMatr2f
## id.pred aA valA id.meas measMatr disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 82 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 3 13 83 4 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 1 2
## [3,] 3 13 83 6 13.5 -0.5 -37037.0 2 1 2
## [4,] 4 14 84 6 13.5 0.5 37037.0 2 0 0
## [5,] 4 14 84 8 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 2 1 1
## [6,] 6 16 86 7 15.7 0.3 19108.0 3 0 0
## [7,] 6 16 86 5 15.9 0.1 6289.3 3 1 1
## [8,] 6 16 86 1 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 3 0 0
a2 <- aA; names(a2) <- letters[1:length(a2)]; c2 <- cC; names(c2) <- letters[10 +1:length(c2)]
(cloM2 <- findCloseMatch(x=a2, y=c2, com="diff", lim=0.5, sor=FALSE))
## $b
## n
## 0.5
##
## $c
## n p
## -0.5 0.5
##
## $d
## p r
## -0.5 0.1
##
## $f
## k o q
## 0.2 -0.1 -0.3
(maA2 <- closeMatchMatrix(cloM2, predM=cbind(valA=81:87, a2),
measM=cbind(valC=91:99, c2), colM=2, colP=2, lim=FALSE, asData=TRUE))
## closeMatchMatrix : Reset argument 'origNa' to FALSE since names of 'predMatr' and/or 'measMatr' result of formula and would be too long
## id.pred valA a2 id.meas valC c2 disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## b b 82 12 n 94 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## c_1 c 83 13 n 94 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 1 2
## c_2 c 83 13 p 96 13.5 -0.5 -37037.0 2 1 2
## d_1 d 84 14 p 96 13.5 0.5 37037.0 2 0 0
## d_2 d 84 14 r 98 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 2 1 1
## f_1 f 86 16 q 97 15.7 0.3 19108.0 3 0 0
## f_2 f 86 16 o 95 15.9 0.1 6289.3 3 1 1
## f_3 f 86 16 k 91 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 3 0 0
(maA2 <- closeMatchMatrix(cloM2, cbind(id=names(a2), valA=81:87,a2), cbind(id=names(c2),
valC=91:99,c2), colM=3, colP=3, lim=FALSE, deb=FALSE))
## closeMatchMatrix : Reset argument 'origNa' to FALSE since names of 'predMatr' and/or 'measMatr' result of formula and would be too long
## id.pred valA a2 id.meas valC c2 disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp
## b "b" "82" "12" "n" "94" "12.5" "-0.5" "-40000" "1"
## c "c" "83" "13" "n" "94" "12.5" "0.5" "40000" "2"
## c "c" "83" "13" "p" "96" "13.5" "-0.5" "-37037" "2"
## d "d" "84" "14" "p" "96" "13.5" "0.5" "37037" "2"
## d "d" "84" "14" "r" "98" "14.1" "-0.0999999999999996" "-7092.2" "2"
## f "f" "86" "16" "q" "97" "15.7" "0.300000000000001" "19108" "3"
## f "f" "86" "16" "o" "95" "15.9" "0.0999999999999996" "6289.3" "3"
## f "f" "86" "16" "k" "91" "16.2" "-0.199999999999999" "-12346" "3"
## isMin nBest
## b "1" "1"
## c "1" "2"
## c "1" "2"
## d "0" "0"
## d "1" "1"
## f "0" "0"
## f "1" "1"
## f "0" "0"
Find Similar Numeric Values From Two Vectors/Matrixes
For comparing two sets of data one may use
findSimilarFrom2sets().
aA <- c(11:17); bB <- c(12.001,13.999); cC <- c(16.2,8,9,12.5,12.6,15.9,14.1)
aZ <- matrix(c(aA,aA+20), ncol=2, dimnames=list(letters[1:length(aA)],c("aaA","aZ")))
cZ <- matrix(c(cC,cC+20), ncol=2, dimnames=list(letters[1:length(cC)],c("ccC","cZ")))
findCloseMatch(cC, aA, com="diff", lim=0.5, sor=FALSE)
## $x1
## y6
## -0.2
##
## $x4
## y2 y3
## -0.5 0.5
##
## $x5
## y3
## 0.4
##
## $x6
## y6
## 0.1
##
## $x7
## y4
## -0.1
findSimilFrom2sets(aA, cC)
## aA predMatr cC measMatr disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 3 13 4 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 0 0
## [3,] 3 13 5 12.6 0.4 31746.0 2 1 1
## [4,] 4 14 7 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 1 1 1
## [5,] 6 16 6 15.9 0.1 6289.3 2 1 1
## [6,] 6 16 1 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 2 0 0
findSimilFrom2sets(cC, aA)
## cC predMatr aA measMatr disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 1 16.2 6 16 0.2 12500.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 4 12.5 2 12 0.5 41667.0 2 1 2
## [3,] 4 12.5 3 13 -0.5 -38462.0 2 1 2
## [4,] 5 12.6 3 13 -0.4 -30769.0 1 1 1
## [5,] 6 15.9 6 16 -0.1 -6250.0 1 1 1
## [6,] 7 14.1 4 14 0.1 7142.9 1 1 1
findSimilFrom2sets(aA, cC, best=FALSE)
## aA predMatr cC measMatr disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 3 13 4 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 0 0
## [3,] 3 13 5 12.6 0.4 31746.0 2 1 1
## [4,] 4 14 7 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 1 1 1
## [5,] 6 16 6 15.9 0.1 6289.3 2 1 1
## [6,] 6 16 1 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 2 0 0
findSimilFrom2sets(aA, cC, comp="ppm", lim=5e4)
## aA predMatr cC measMatr disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 1 1 1
## [2,] 3 13 4 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 0 0
## [3,] 3 13 5 12.6 0.4 31746.0 2 1 1
## [4,] 4 14 7 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 1 1 1
## [5,] 6 16 6 15.9 0.1 6289.3 2 1 1
## [6,] 6 16 1 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 2 0 0
## [7,] 7 17 1 16.2 0.8 49383.0 1 1 1
findSimilFrom2sets(aA, cC, comp="ppm", lim=9e4, bestO=FALSE)
## aA predMatr cC measMatr disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 2 1 1
## [2,] 2 12 5 12.6 -0.6 -47619.0 3 0 0
## [3,] 3 13 4 12.5 0.5 40000.0 2 0 0
## [4,] 3 13 5 12.6 0.4 31746.0 3 1 1
## [5,] 3 13 7 14.1 -1.1 -78014.0 3 0 0
## [6,] 4 14 7 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 1 1 1
## [7,] 5 15 7 14.1 0.9 63830.0 3 1 2
## [8,] 5 15 6 15.9 -0.9 -56604.0 3 1 2
## [9,] 5 15 1 16.2 -1.2 -74074.0 2 0 0
## [10,] 6 16 6 15.9 0.1 6289.3 3 0 0
## [11,] 6 16 1 16.2 -0.2 -12346.0 2 0 0
## [12,] 7 17 6 15.9 1.1 69182.0 2 1 0
## [13,] 7 17 1 16.2 0.8 49383.0 2 1 2
# below: find fewer 'best matches' since search window larger (ie more good hits compete !)
findSimilFrom2sets(aA, cC, comp="ppm", lim=9e4, bestO=TRUE)
## aA predMatr cC measMatr disToPred ppmToPred nByGrp isMin nBest
## [1,] 2 12 4 12.5 -0.5 -40000.0 2 1 1
## [2,] 3 13 5 12.6 0.4 31746.0 3 1 1
## [3,] 4 14 7 14.1 -0.1 -7092.2 1 1 1
## [4,] 5 15 7 14.1 0.9 63830.0 3 1 2
## [5,] 5 15 6 15.9 -0.9 -56604.0 3 1 2
## [6,] 7 17 6 15.9 1.1 69182.0 2 1 0
## [7,] 7 17 1 16.2 0.8 49383.0 2 1 2
Fuse Previously Identified Pairs To ‘Clusters’
When you have already identified the closest neighbour of a set of
values, you may want to re-organize/fuse such pairs to a given number of
total clusters (using fusePairs()).
(daPa <- matrix(c(1:5,8,2:6,9), ncol=2))
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 1 2
## [2,] 2 3
## [3,] 3 4
## [4,] 4 5
## [5,] 5 6
## [6,] 8 9
fusePairs(daPa, maxFuse=4)
## 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 8 9
## 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
Eliminate Close (Overlapping) Points (In Bivariate x & y
Space)
When visualizing larger data-sets in an x&y space one may find
many points overlapping when their values are almost the same.
The function elimCloseCoord() aims to do reduce a bivariate
data-set to ‘non-overlapping’ points, somehow similar to human
perception.
da1 <- matrix(c(rep(0:4,5),0.01,1.1,2.04,3.07,4.5), ncol=2); da1[,1] <- da1[,1]*99; head(da1)
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] 0 0
## [2,] 99 1
## [3,] 198 2
## [4,] 297 3
## [5,] 396 4
## [6,] 0 0
elimCloseCoord(da1)
## elimCloseCoord : reducing 'x' from 15 to 7 lines
## [,1] [,2]
## 1 0 0.0
## 2 99 1.0
## 3 198 2.0
## 4 297 3.0
## 5 396 4.0
## 12 99 1.1
## 15 396 4.5
Mode Of (Continuous) Data
Looking for the mode is rather easy with counting data, the
result of table() will get you there quickly. However, with
continuous data the mode may be more tricky to defne and identify.
Intuitively most people consider the mode asthe peak of a density
estimation (which remains to be defined and estimated). With continuous
data most frequent (precise) value may be quite different/distant to the
most dense region of data. The function stableMode()
presented here has different modes of operation, at this point there is
no clear rule which mode may perform most satisfactory in different
situations.
set.seed(2012); dat <- round(c(rnorm(120,0,1.2), rnorm(80,0.8,0.6), rnorm(25,-0.6,0.05), runif(200)),3)
dat <- dat[which(dat > -2 & dat <2)]
stableMode(dat)
## stableMode : Method='density', length of x =406, 'bandw' has been set to 28
## 221
## 0.477
Now we can try to show on a plot :
layout(1:2)
plot(1:length(dat), sort(dat), type="l", main="Sorted Values", xlab="rank", las=1)
abline(h=stableMode(dat, silent=TRUE), lty=2,col=2)
legend("topleft",c("stableMode"), text.col=2, col=2, lty=2, lwd=1, seg.len=1.2, cex=0.8, xjust=0, yjust=0.5)
plot(density(dat, kernel="gaussian", adjust=0.7), xlab="Value of dat", main="Density Estimate Plot")
useCol <- c("red","green","blue","grey55")
legend("topleft",c("dens","binning","BBmisc","allModes"), text.col=useCol, col=useCol,
lty=2, lwd=1, seg.len=1.2, cex=0.8, xjust=0, yjust=0.5)
abline(v=stableMode(dat, method="dens", silent=TRUE), lty=2, col="red", lwd=2)
abline(v=stableMode(dat, method="binning", silent=TRUE), lty=2, col="green")
abline(v=stableMode(dat, method="BBmisc", silent=TRUE), lty=2, col="blue")
## Loading required namespace: BBmisc
abline(v=stableMode(dat, method="allModes"), lty=2, col="grey55")
Please note, that plotting data modelled via a Kernell function (as
above) also relies on strong hypothesis which may not be well justified
in a number of cases ! For this reason, the sorted values were
plotted, too.
As you can see from this example above, looking for the most frequent
exact value may not be a perfect choice for continous data. In this
example the method ‘allModes’ (ie the multiple instances of
most frequent exact values) gave partially usable results (dashed grey
lines), due to the rounding to 3 digits. As you can see in the example
above, the method ‘allModes’ may give multiple ties ! More
rounding will make to data more discrete and ultimately ressemble
cunting data. However, with rounding some of the finer
resolution/details will get lost.
Most Frequently Occuring Value (traditional mode)
The function stableMode() can also be used to locate
the most frequently occuring exact value of numeric or
character vectors. As we just saw at the end of the previous example,
the argument method=“allModes” allows finding all ties (if
present).
set.seed(2021)
x <- sample(letters, 50000, replace=TRUE)
stableMode(dat, method="mode")
## [1] 0.173
stableMode(dat, method="allModes")
## [1] 0.173 0.629 0.676
Text-Manipulations
There are several packages offering interesting functions for
manipulating text. Here are a few functions to complement these.
Protect Special Characters
The function protectSpecChar() allows protecting the
majority of special characters which may influence the outcome of
grep() and related functions so thay they can be used easier in
searches using grep() or alike.
aa <- c("abc","abcde","ab.c","ab.c.e","ab*c","ab\\d")
grepl("b.", aa) # all TRUE
## [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
grepl(protectSpecChar("b."), aa)
## [1] FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
Trimming Redundant Text
Automatic annotation has the tendency to concatenate many parameters
into a single names. The function trimRedundText() was
designed to allow trimming redundant text from left and/or right side of
a character-vector (when the same portion of text appears in
each element). However, as in some cases (like the first
element of the example below) nothing would remain, it is possible to
define a minimum width for the remaining/resulting text.
txt1 <- c("abcd","abcde","abcdefg","abcdE",NA,"abcdEF")
trimRedundText(txt1)
## [1] "d" "de" "defg" "dE" NA "dEF"
Removing Redundant/Shared Words
A more gentle way to make text non-redundant consists in removing
redundant text isporposed by the function rmSharedWords().
Multiple separators may be used (and combined) to specify ‘words’, a
minimum length of what mat be considered a word can be defined, too
(default at min 2 characters). For example, this can be used to make
column-names shorter and more precise.
txt2 <- c("abc d","abc de","abc defg","abc dE",NA,"abc dEF")
rmSharedWords(txt2)
## [1] "d" "de" "defg" "dE" NA "dEF"
In contrast to trimRedundText() numeric parts may remain ‘intact’,
see example below.
txt3 <- c("ab 100 m","ab 120 m","ab 1000 m")
trimRedundText(txt3)
## [1] "0" "2" "00"
rmSharedWords(txt3)
## [1] "100_m" "120_m" "1000_m"
Manipulating Enumerator-Extensions
Human operators may have many ways to write enumerators like
‘xx_sample_1’, ‘xx_Sample_2’, ‘xx_s3’, ‘xx_4’, etc. Many times you may
find such text as names or column-names for measures underneith.
The functions presented below will work only if consistent
numerators, ie (text +) digit-character(s) are at the end of all
character-strings to be treated.
Please note, that with large vectors testing/checking a larger panel
of enumerator-abreviations may result in slower performance. In cases of
such larger data-sets it may be more effective to first study the data
and then run simple subsitions using sub() targeted for this
very case.
Remove/Modify Enumerators
The aim of this function consists in identifying a common
pattern for terminal enumeratos (ie at end of words/character strings)
and to subsequently modify or remove them. As separator-symbols and
separator-words are given indedently all combinations thereof may be
tested. Furthermore the user has the choice to (automatically) all
truncated versions of separator-words (eg Sam instead of
Sample).
As basic setting rmEnumeratorName() allows to identify
and then modify a common terminal enumerator from all elements
of a character string :
xx <- c("hg_Re1","hjRe2_Re2","hk-Re3_Re33")
rmEnumeratorName(xx)
## [1] "hg1" "hjRe22" "hk-Re333"
rmEnumeratorName(xx, newSep="--")
## [1] "hg--1" "hjRe2--2" "hk-Re3--33"
rmEnumeratorName(xx, incl="anyCase")
## rmEnumeratorName : No conistent enumerator+digit combination found; nothing to do ..
## [1] "hg_Re1" "hjRe2_Re2" "hk-Re3_Re33"
Furthermore, this function allows scanning a matrix of text-data and
to perform similar operations to the first column found
containing a common terminal enumerator.
xy <- cbind(a=11:13, b=c("11#11","2_No2","333_samp333"), c=xx)
rmEnumeratorName(xy)
## a b c
## [1,] "11" "11#11" "hg1"
## [2,] "12" "2_No2" "hjRe22"
## [3,] "13" "333_samp333" "hk-Re333"
rmEnumeratorName(xy,incl=c("anyCase","trim2","rmEnumL"))
## $dat
## a b c
## [1,] "11" "11#11" "hg"
## [2,] "12" "2_No2" "hjRe2"
## [3,] "13" "333_samp333" "hk-Re3"
##
## $column
## [1] 3
##
## $pattern
## [1] "_Re"
If you which to remove/subsitute mutiple types of enumerators the
function must be run independently, see last example below.
xz <- cbind(a=11:13, b=c("23#11","4#2","567#333"), c=xx)
apply(xz, 2, rmEnumeratorName, sepEnum=c("","_"), newSep="_", silent=TRUE)
## a b c
## [1,] "11" "23_11" "hg_1"
## [2,] "12" "4_2" "hjRe2_2"
## [3,] "13" "567_333" "hk-Re3_33"
Unify Enumerators
The (slightly older) function unifyEnumerator() offers
less options, in particular the potential separator-words must be given
explicitly, only lower/upper-case may be kept flexible.
unifyEnumerator(c("ab-1","ab-2","c-3"))
## [1] "ab-" "ab-" "c-"
unifyEnumerator(c("ab-R1","ab-R2","c-R3"))
## [1] "ab-R" "ab-R" "c-R"
unifyEnumerator(c("ab-1","c3-2","dR3"), stringentMatch=FALSE)
## [1] "ab-" "c3-" "dR"
Find Common Unit
The function checkUnitPrefix aims to find a
unit-abbreviation or -name occurring in all elements of a
character-vector. The unit name may be preceeded by different decimal
prefixes (eg ‘k’,‘M’, see argument pref) which may vary within
the vector. By default some common SI-units will be searched, see
argument unit.
x1 <- c("10fg WW","xx 10fg 3pW"," 1pg 2.0W")
checkUnitPrefix(x1)
## [1] "g"
## different separators between digit and prefix:
x2 <- c("10fg WW","xx 8_fg 3pW"," 1 pg-2.0W")
checkUnitPrefix(x2, stringentSearch=TRUE)
## NULL
checkUnitPrefix(x2, stringentSearch=FALSE)
## [1] "g"
Adjust Decimal Prefixes And Extact Numeric+Unit Part
The function adjustUnitPrefix() provides help extracting
the numeric part of character vectors and allows adjusting to a single
million-unit type. This can be used to convert a vector of mixed
prefixes like ‘z’,‘a’,‘f’,‘p’,‘n’,‘u’ and ‘m’ (note: the ‘u’ is used for
‘micro’). The output is a character vector with all prefix+unit
expressions adjusted to use the same prefix everywhere
(numeric+separator+prefix+unit). Redundant additional text may get
(optionally) trimmed (see argument returnType=“trim”), the
numeric part names + unit is give in the names.
Please note that decimal/comma digits will not be recognized
properly, the function may/will consider the decimal sign as just
another separator (as ‘.’ is part af the default selection of
separators).
adjustUnitPrefix(c("10.psec", "2 fsec"), unit="sec")
## 10000 2
## "10000 fsec" "2 fsec"
Using the argument returnType you can choose how much of the
remaining text should be shown.
x2 <- c("abCc 500_nmol ABC", "abEe5_umol", "", "abFF_100_nmol_G", "abGg 2_mol", "abH.1 mmol")
rbind( adjustUnitPrefix(x2, unit="mol", returnType="allText") ,
adjustUnitPrefix(x2, unit="mol", returnType="trim"),
adjustUnitPrefix(x2, unit="mol", returnType=""))
## adjustUnitPrefix : Ignoring 1 entries not containing 'mol'
## adjustUnitPrefix : Ignoring 1 entries not containing 'mol'
## adjustUnitPrefix : Ignoring 1 entries not containing 'mol'
## 500 5000 <NA> 100
## [1,] "abCc _500_nmol_ ABC" "abEe_5000_nmol_" NA "abFF__100_nmol__G"
## [2,] "Cc _500_nmol_" "Ee_5000_nmol_" NA "FF__100_nmol_"
## [3,] "500_nmol" "5000_nmol" NA "100_nmol"
## 2e+09 1e+06
## [1,] "abGg _2e+09_nmol_" "abH._1e+06_nmol_"
## [2,] "Gg _2e+09_nmol_" "H._1e+06_nmol_"
## [3,] "2e+09_nmol" "1e+06_nmol"
If the unit -name is not knonw in advance, you can try to
figure out. In the example it is shown that the unit-name can be
determined using the function checkUnitPrefix().
x3 <- c("2.psec abc","300 fsec etc", "34 5fsec")
adjustUnitPrefix(x3, unit=checkUnitPrefix(x3))
## 2000 300 5
## "2000fsec abc" "300fsec etc" "34 5fsec"
Merging Multiple Named Vectors To Matrix
The function mergeVectors() allows merging for multiple
named vectors (each element needs to be named). Basically, all elements
carrying the same name across different input-vectors will be aligned in
the same column of the output (input-vectors appear as lines). Different
to merge() which allows merging only 2 data.frames, here
multiple vectors may be merge at once.
x1 <- c(a=1, b=11, c=21)
x2 <- c(b=12, c=22, a=2)
x3 <- c(a=3, d=43)
mergeVectors(vect1=x1, vect2=x2, vect3=x3)
## a b c d
## vect1 1 11 21 NA
## vect2 2 12 22 NA
## vect3 3 NA NA 43
mergeVectors(vect1=x1, vect2=x2, vect3=x3, inclInfo=TRUE) # return list with additional info
## mergeVectors : Vectors must be longer than 0 and must have names on each element for merging; omit 1 (out of 4) vector(s)
## a b c d
## vect1 1 11 21 NA
## vect2 2 12 22 NA
## vect3 3 NA NA 43
In the example below we’ll add another vector without named
elements. As you can see a message tells the this vector was been
ignored/omitted.
x4 <- 41:44 # no names - not conform for merging and will be ignored
mergeVectors(x1, x2, x3, x4)
## mergeVectors : Vectors must be longer than 0 and must have names on each element for merging; omit 1 (out of 4) vector(s)
## a b c d
## x.1 1 11 21 NA
## x.2 2 12 22 NA
## x.3 3 NA NA 43
Match All Lines of Matrix To Reference Note
This function allows adjusting the order of lines of a matrix to a
reference character-vector , even when initial direct matching of
character-strings using is not possible/successful. In this case,
various variants of using will be used to see if unambiguous matching is
possible of characteristic parts of the text. All columns of will be
tested an the column giving the best results will be used.
## Note : columns b and e allow non-ambigous match, not all elements of e are present in a
mat0 <- cbind(a=c("mvvk","axxd","bxxd","vv"),b=c("iwwy","iyyu","kvvh","gxx"), c=rep(9,4),
d=c("hgf","hgf","vxc","nvnn"), e=c("_vv_","_ww_","_xx_","_yy_"))
matchMatrixLinesToRef(mat0[,1:4], ref=mat0[,5])
## aOO1
## ref
## [1,] "_vv_"
## [2,] "_ww_"
## [3,] "_xx_"
## [4,] "_yy_"
matchMatrixLinesToRef(mat0[,1:4], ref=mat0[1:3,5], inclInfo=TRUE)
## aOO1
## $mat
## ref
## [1,] "_vv_"
## [2,] "_ww_"
## [3,] "_xx_"
##
## $byColumn
## [1] 2
##
## $newOrder
## vv ww xx
## 3 1 4
##
## $method
## [1] "grep of ref after trimming redundant text"
matchMatrixLinesToRef(mat0[,-2], ref=mat0[,2], inclInfo=TRUE) # needs 'reverse grep'
## matchMatrixLinesToRef : rmEnumeratorName : Invalid or empty input; nothing to do ..
## matchMatrixLinesToRef : rmEnumeratorName : Invalid or empty input; nothing to do ..
## matchMatrixLinesToRef : rmEnumeratorName : Invalid or empty input; nothing to do ..
## $mat
## a c d e ref
## [1,] "axxd" "9" "hgf" "_ww_" "iwwy"
## [2,] "vv" "9" "nvnn" "_yy_" "iyyu"
## [3,] "mvvk" "9" "hgf" "_vv_" "kvvh"
## [4,] "bxxd" "9" "vxc" "_xx_" "gxx"
##
## $byColumn
## [1] 4
##
## $newOrder
## [1] 2 4 1 3
##
## $method
## [1] "Reverse grep after trimming redundant text"
Order Matrix According To Reference
The function orderMatrToRef() has the aim of
facilitating brining a matrix of text/data in the order of a given
reference (character vector). This function will try all columns of the
input-matrix to see which gives the best coverage/ highest number of
matches to the reference. If no hits are found, this function will try
by partial matching (using grep()) all entries of the reference
and vice-versa all entries of the matrix.
mat1 <- matrix(paste0("__",letters[rep(c(1,1,2,2,3),3) +rep(0:2,each=5)], rep(1:5)), ncol=3)
orderMatrToRef(mat1, paste0(letters[c(3,4,5,3,4)],c(1,3,5,2,4)))
## $by
## [1] "mat"
##
## $colNo
## [1] 3
##
## $le
## c1 d3 e5 c2 d4
## 1 1 1 1 1
##
## $ord
## [1] 1 4 2 5 3
##
## $mat
## ref
## [1,] "__a1" "__b1" "__c1" "c1"
## [2,] "__b4" "__c4" "__d4" "d3"
## [3,] "__a2" "__b2" "__c2" "e5"
## [4,] "__c5" "__d5" "__e5" "c2"
## [5,] "__b3" "__c3" "__d3" "d4"
mat2 <- matrix(paste0("__",letters[rep(c(1,1,2,2,3),3) +rep(0:2,each=5)], c(rep(1:5,2),1,1,3:5 )), ncol=3)
orderMatrToRef(mat2, paste0(letters[c(3,4,5,3,4)],c(1,3,5,1,4)))
## $by
## [1] "ref"
##
## $colNo
## [1] 3
##
## $le
## c1 d3 e5 c1 d4
## 2 1 1 2 1
##
## $ord
## c1 d3 e5 c1 d4
## 1 3 5 2 4
##
## $mat
## ref
## [1,] "__a1" "__b1" "__c1" "c1"
## [2,] "__b3" "__c3" "__d3" "d3"
## [3,] "__c5" "__d5" "__e5" "e5"
## [4,] "__a2" "__b2" "__c1" "c1"
## [5,] "__b4" "__c4" "__d4" "d4"
mat3 <- matrix(paste0(letters[rep(c(1,1,2,2,3),3) +rep(0:2,each=5)], c(rep(1:5,2),1,1,3,3,5 )), ncol=3)
orderMatrToRef(mat3, paste0("__",letters[c(3,4,5,3,4)],c(1,3,5,1,3)))
## $by
## [1] "mat"
##
## $colNo
## [1] 3
##
## $le
## a1 a2 b3 b4 c5
## 2 2 2 2 1
##
## $ord
## [1] 1 3 5 2 4
##
## $mat
## ref
## [1,] "a1" "b1" "c1" "__c1"
## [2,] "b3" "c3" "d3" "__d3"
## [3,] "c5" "d5" "e5" "__e5"
## [4,] "a2" "b2" "c1" "__c1"
## [5,] "b4" "c4" "d3" "__d3"
Value Matching With Option For Concatenated Terms
Sometimes we need to match terms in concatenated tables. The function
concatMatch() was designed to behave similar to
match() but also allowing to serach among concatenated terms
and some further text-simplifications.
## simple example without concatenations or text-extensions
x0 <- c("ZZ","YY","AA","BB","DD","CC","D")
tab0 <- c("AA","BB,E","CC","FF,U")
match(x0, tab0)
## [1] NA NA 1 NA NA 3 NA
concatMatch(x0, tab0) # same result as match(), but with names
## ZZ YY AA BB DD CC D
## NA NA 1 2 NA 3 NA
## now let's construct somthing similar but with concatenations and text-extensions
x1 <- c("ZZ","YY","AA","BB-2","DD","CCdef","Dxy") # modif of single ID (no concat)
tab1 <- c("AA","WW,Vde,BB-5,E","CCab","FF,Uef")
match(x1, tab1) # match finds only the 'simplest' case (ie "AA")
## [1] NA NA 1 NA NA NA NA
concatMatch(x1, tab1) # finds all hits as in example above
## ZZ YY AA BB DD CC D
## NA NA 1 2 NA 3 NA
x2 <- c("ZZ,Z","YY,Y","AA,Z,Y","BB-2","DD","X,CCdef","Dxy") # conatenated in 'x'
tab2 <- c("AA","WW,Vde,BB-5,E","CCab,WW","FF,UU")
concatMatch(x2, tab2) # concatenation in both 'x' and 'table'
## ZZ,Z YY,Y AA,Z,Y BB DD X,CC D
## NA NA 1 2 NA 3 NA
Check for (Strict) Order
Thi function checkStrictOrder() was designed to scan
each line of an (numeric) input matrix for up- down- or
equal-development, ie the chang to the next value on the right. For
example when working with a matrix of with 4 columns one can look 3
times a the neighbour value following to the right (in the same line),
thus the output will mention 3 events (for each line). If all
counts are ‘up’ and 0 counts are ‘down’ or ‘eq’, the line follows a
permanently increase (not necessarily linear), etc.
In some automated procedures (where the numer of columns of initial
input may vary) it may be easier to test if any 0 occur. For this reason
the argument invertCount was introduced, in this case a line
with a ‘0’ occurring characterizes a constant behaviour (for the
respective column).
set.seed(2005); mat1 <- rbind(matrix(round(runif(40),1),nc=4), rep(1,4))
head(mat1)
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
## [1,] 0.8 0.5 0.2 0.0
## [2,] 0.1 0.6 0.9 1.0
## [3,] 0.9 0.4 0.5 0.8
## [4,] 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.5
## [5,] 0.7 0.6 0.4 0.7
## [6,] 0.7 0.8 0.3 0.7
checkStrictOrder(mat1); mat1[which(checkStrictOrder(mat1)[,2]==0),]
## up down eq
## [1,] 0 3 0
## [2,] 3 0 0
## [3,] 2 1 0
## [4,] 2 1 0
## [5,] 1 2 0
## [6,] 2 1 0
## [7,] 1 2 0
## [8,] 2 1 0
## [9,] 1 2 0
## [10,] 2 1 0
## [11,] 0 0 3
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
## [1,] 0.1 0.6 0.9 1
## [2,] 1.0 1.0 1.0 1
A slightly more general way of testing can be done using
checkGrpOrder(). Here, simlpy a logical value will produced
for each line of input indicating if there is constant behaviour. When
the argument revRank=TRUE (default) constant up- or constant
down-characteristics will be tested
head(mat1)
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
## [1,] 0.8 0.5 0.2 0.0
## [2,] 0.1 0.6 0.9 1.0
## [3,] 0.9 0.4 0.5 0.8
## [4,] 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.5
## [5,] 0.7 0.6 0.4 0.7
## [6,] 0.7 0.8 0.3 0.7
checkGrpOrder(mat1)
## [1] TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE
checkGrpOrder(mat1, revRank=FALSE) # only constant 'up' tested
## [1] FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE
Normalization
The main reason of normalization is to remove variability in the data
which is not directly linked to the (original/biological) concept of a
given experiment. High throughput data from real world measurements may
easily contain various deformations due to technical reasons, eg slight
temperature variations, electromagnetic interference, instability of
reagents etc. In particular, transferring constant amounts of
liquids/reagents in highly repeated steps over large experiments is
often also very challenging, small variations of the amounts of liquid
(or similar) are typically addressed by normalization. However, applying
aggressive normalization to the data also brings considerable risk of
starting to loose some of the effects one intended to study. At some
point it may rather be better to eliminate a few samples or branches of
an experiment to avoid too invasive intervention. This shows that
quality control can be tightly linked to decisions about
data-normalization. In conclusion, normalization may be far more
challenging than simply running some algorithms..
In general, the use has to assume/define some hypothesis to justify
intervention. Sometimes specific elements of an experiment are known to
be not affected and can therefore be used to normalize the rest. Eg, if
you observe growth of trees in a forest, big blocks of rock on the floor
are assumed no to change their location. So one could use them as
alignment-marks to superpose pictures taken at slightly different
positions.
The hypothesis of no global changes is very common : During the
course of many biological experiments (eg change of nutrient) one
assumes that only a small portion of the elements measured (eg the
abundance of all different gene-products) do change, since many
processes of a living cell like growth, replication and interaction with
neighbour-cells are assumed not to be affected. So, if one assumes that
there are no global changes one normalizes the input-data in a way that
the average or median across each experiment will give the same value.
In analogy, if one takes photographs on a partially cloudy day, most
cameras will adjust light settings (sun r clouds) so that global
luminosity stays the same. However, if too many of the measured elements
are affected, this normalization approach will lead to (additional) loss
of information.
It is essential to understand the type of deformation(s)
data may suffer from in order to choose the appropriate approacges for
normalization. Of course, graphical representations (PCA,
MA-plots, etc) are
extremely important to identifying abnormalities and potential problems.
The package wrGraph offers
also complementary options useful in the context of normalization.
Again, graphical representation(s) of the data help to visualize how
different normalization procedures affect outcomes.
Before jumping into normalization it may be quite useful to
filter the data first. The overall idea is, that most
high-throughput experiments do produce some non-meaningful data
(artefacts) and it may be wise to remove such ‘bad’ data first, as they
may effect normalization (in particular extreme values). A
special case of problematic data concerns NA-values.
Filter Lines Of Matrix To Reduce Content Of NAs
Frequent NA-values may represent another potential issue.
With NA-values there is no general optimal advice. To get started, you
should try to investigate how and why NA-values occurred to check if
there is a special ‘meaning’ to them. For example, on some measurement
systems values below detection limit may be simply reported as NAs. If
the lines of your data represent different features quantified (eg
proteins), than lines with mostly NA-values represent features that may
not be well exploited anyway. Therefore many times one tries to filter
away lines of ‘bad’ data. Of course, if there is a column (sample) with
an extremely high content of NAs, one should also investigate what might
be particular with this column (sample), to see if one might be better
of to eliminate the entire column.
Please note, that imputing NA-values represents another
option instead of filtering and removing, multiple other packages
address this in detail, too. All decisions of which approach to use
should be data-driven.
Filter For Each Group Of Columns For Sufficient Data As Non-NA
Filter for each group of columns for sufficient data as non-NA The
function presenceGrpFilt() allows to
dat1 <- matrix(1:56,ncol=7)
dat1[c(2,3,4,5,6,10,12,18,19,20,22,23,26,27,28,30,31,34,38,39,50,54)] <- NA
grp1 <- gl(3,3)[-(3:4)]
dat1
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7]
## [1,] 1 9 17 25 33 41 49
## [2,] NA NA NA NA NA 42 NA
## [3,] NA 11 NA NA 35 43 51
## [4,] NA NA NA NA 36 44 52
## [5,] NA 13 21 29 37 45 53
## [6,] NA 14 NA NA NA 46 NA
## [7,] 7 15 NA NA NA 47 55
## [8,] 8 16 24 32 40 48 56
## now let's filter
presenceGrpFilt(dat1, gr=grp1, presThr=0.75) # stringent
## 1 2 3
## [1,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [2,] FALSE FALSE FALSE
## [3,] FALSE FALSE TRUE
## [4,] FALSE FALSE TRUE
## [5,] FALSE TRUE TRUE
## [6,] FALSE FALSE FALSE
## [7,] TRUE FALSE FALSE
## [8,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
presenceGrpFilt(dat1, gr=grp1, presThr=0.25) # less stringent
## 1 2 3
## [1,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [2,] FALSE FALSE TRUE
## [3,] TRUE FALSE TRUE
## [4,] FALSE FALSE TRUE
## [5,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [6,] TRUE FALSE TRUE
## [7,] TRUE FALSE TRUE
## [8,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
Filter As Separate Pairwise Groups Of Samples
If you want to use your data in a pair-wise view (like running
t-tests on each line) the function presenceFilt() allows to
eliminate lines containing too many NA-values for each
pair-wise combination of the groups/levles.
presenceFilt(dat1, gr=grp1, maxGr=1, ratM=0.1)
## presenceFilt : correcting 'maxGrpMiss' for group(s) 1, 2 and 3 due to ratMaxNA=0.1
## 1-2 1-3 2-3
## [1,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [2,] FALSE FALSE FALSE
## [3,] FALSE TRUE TRUE
## [4,] FALSE TRUE TRUE
## [5,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [6,] FALSE FALSE FALSE
## [7,] TRUE TRUE FALSE
## [8,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
presenceFilt(dat1, gr=grp1, maxGr=2, rat=0.5)
## presenceFilt : correcting 'maxGrpMiss' for group(s) 1 and 2 due to ratMaxNA=0.5
## 1-2 1-3 2-3
## [1,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [2,] FALSE TRUE TRUE
## [3,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [4,] FALSE TRUE TRUE
## [5,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [6,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [7,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
## [8,] TRUE TRUE TRUE
Cleaning Replicates
This procedures aims to remove (by setting to as NA) the
most extreme of noisy replicates. Thus, it is assumed that all columns
of the input matrix (or data.frame) are replicates of the other columns.
The nOutl most distant points are identified and will be set to
NA.
(mat3 <- matrix(c(19,20,30,40, 18,19,28,39, 16,14,35,41, 17,20,30,40), ncol=4))
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
## [1,] 19 18 16 17
## [2,] 20 19 14 20
## [3,] 30 28 35 30
## [4,] 40 39 41 40
cleanReplicates(mat3, nOutl=1)
## cleanReplicates : rownames of 'x' either NULL or not unique, replacing by row-numbers
## cleanReplicates : removing 1 entries in lines 2
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
## 1 19 18 16 17
## 2 20 19 NA 20
## 3 30 28 35 30
## 4 40 39 41 40
cleanReplicates(mat3, nOutl=3)
## cleanReplicates : rownames of 'x' either NULL or not unique, replacing by row-numbers
## cleanReplicates : removing 3 entries in lines 1,2,3
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
## 1 NA 18 16 17
## 2 20 19 NA 20
## 3 30 28 NA 30
## 4 40 39 41 40
The Function normalizeThis()
In biological high-throughput data columns typically represent
different samples, which may be organized as replicates. During
high-throughput experiments thousands of (independent) elements are
measured (eg abundance of gene-products), they are represented by rows.
As real-world experiments are not always as perfect as we may think,
small changes in the signal measured may easily happen. Thus, the aim of
normalizing is to remove or reduce any trace/variability in the data not
related to the original experiement but due to imperfections during
detection.
Note, that some experiments may produce a considerable amount of
missing data (NAs) which require special attention (dedicated
developments exist in other R-packages eg in wrProteo). My
general advice is to first carefully look where such missing data is
observed and to pay attention to replicate measurements where a given
element once was measured with a real numeric value and once as missing
information (NA).
set.seed(2015); rand1 <- round(runif(300) +rnorm(300,0,2),3)
dat1 <- cbind(ser1=round(100:1 +rand1[1:100]), ser2=round(1.2*(100:1 +rand1[101:200]) -2),
ser3=round((100:1 +rand1[201:300])^1.2-3))
dat1 <- cbind(dat1, ser4=round(dat1[,1]^seq(2,5,length.out=100) +rand1[11:110],1))
## Let's introduce some NAs
dat1[dat1 <1] <- NA
## Let's get a quick overview of the data
summary(dat1)
## ser1 ser2 ser3 ser4
## Min. : 2.00 Min. : 1.00 Min. : 1.0 Min. : 37.5
## 1st Qu.: 26.75 1st Qu.: 28.00 1st Qu.: 50.0 1st Qu.: 67210.0
## Median : 49.50 Median : 59.00 Median :109.0 Median : 332524.0
## Mean : 51.14 Mean : 58.79 Mean :115.1 Mean : 542279.4
## 3rd Qu.: 76.25 3rd Qu.: 89.50 3rd Qu.:173.5 3rd Qu.: 925759.5
## Max. :100.00 Max. :121.00 Max. :263.0 Max. :2123191.7
## NA's :1
## some selected lines (indeed, the 4th column appears always much higher)
dat1[c(1:5,50:54,95:100),]
## ser1 ser2 ser3 ser4
## [1,] 100 121 251 10000.6
## [2,] 100 117 244 11500.2
## [3,] 99 120 263 12948.1
## [4,] 99 120 242 14885.1
## [5,] 97 114 236 16382.3
## [6,] 51 60 111 892534.1
## [7,] 48 58 109 812490.4
## [8,] 49 55 108 982907.4
## [9,] 50 56 107 1188787.7
## [10,] 45 47 102 915343.6
## [11,] 3 6 5 206.4
## [12,] 5 2 7 2570.0
## [13,] 8 1 3 27125.8
## [14,] 6 4 5 6975.9
## [15,] 3 3 1 237.0
## [16,] 2 1 NA 37.5
Our toy data may be normalized by a number of different criteria. In
real applications the nature of the data and the type of deformation
detected/expected will largely help deciding which normalization might
be the ‘best’ choice. Here we’ll try first normalizing by the mean, ie
all columns will be forced to end up with the same column-mean. The
trimmed mean does not consider values at extremes (as outliers are
frequently artefacts and display extreme values). When restricting even
stronger which values to consider one will eventually end up with the
median (3rd method used below).
no1 <- normalizeThis(dat1, refGrp=1:3, meth="mean")
no2 <- normalizeThis(dat1, refGrp=1:3, meth="trimMean", trim=0.4)
no3 <- normalizeThis(dat1, refGrp=1:3, meth="median")
no4 <- normalizeThis(dat1, refGrp=1:3, meth="slope", quantFa=c(0.2,0.8))
It is suggested to verify normalization results by plots. Note, that
Box plots may not
be appropriate in some cases (eg multimodal distributions), for
displaying more details you may consider using Violin-Plots from
packages vioplot or wrGraph, another
option might be a (cumulated) frequency plot (eg in package wrGraph).
You can see clearly, that the 4th data-set has a problem of range. So
we’ll see if some proportional normalization may help to make it more
comparable to the other ones.
Normalize By Rows
The standard approach for normalizing relies on consisting all
columns as collections of data who’s distribution is not supposed to
change. In some cases/projects we may want to formulate a much more
‘aggressive’ hypothesis : We consider the content of all columns
strictly as the same. For example this may be the case when comparing
with technical replicates only. In such cases one may use the function
rowNormalize() which tries to find the average or mean
optimal within-line normalization factor.
Besides, an additional mode of operation for sparse data has
been added : Basically, once a row contains just one NA, this row can’t
be used any more to derive a normalization factor for all rows. Thus,
with many NA-values the number of ‘complete’ rows will be low or even 0
redering this approach inefficient or impossible. Once the content of
NA-values is above a customizable threshold, the data will be broken in
smaller subsets with fewer groups of fewer columns, thus increasing the
chances of finding ‘complete’ subsets of data which will be normalized
first and added to other subsets in later steps.
This approach relies on the hypothesis that all
data in a given line should be (aproximately) the same value !
Thus, this procedure is particularly well adopted to the case when
all samples are multiple replicate measurements of the
same sample.
set.seed(2); AA <- matrix(rbinom(110, 10, 0.05), nrow=10)
AA[,4:5] <- AA[,4:5] *rep(4:3, each=nrow(AA))
AA1 <- rowNormalize(AA)
round(AA1, 2)
## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
## [1,] 0.65 0.87 2.13 0.34 3.21 0.48 2.04 0.97 0.74 4.34 0.82
## [2,] 1.72 0.87 0.80 0.34 0.29 0.48 2.04 0.97 1.98 1.00 0.82
## [3,] 0.65 2.33 2.13 2.59 0.29 1.27 2.04 0.97 0.74 1.00 3.57
## [4,] 0.65 0.87 0.80 2.59 0.29 2.06 0.77 0.97 0.74 1.00 2.20
## [5,] 2.80 0.87 0.80 0.34 3.21 0.48 2.04 0.97 0.74 1.00 0.82
## [6,] 2.80 2.33 0.80 2.59 1.75 1.27 0.77 2.59 1.98 1.00 0.82
## [7,] 0.65 3.79 0.80 2.59 3.21 1.27 0.77 0.97 3.21 1.00 2.20
## [8,] 1.72 0.87 0.80 0.34 0.29 2.85 0.77 2.59 0.74 1.00 0.82
## [9,] 0.65 0.87 3.47 2.59 0.29 1.27 0.77 0.97 1.98 1.00 0.82
## [10,] 0.65 0.87 0.80 0.34 1.75 1.27 0.77 0.97 0.74 1.00 0.82
Now, let’s make this sparse and try normalizing:
AC <- AA
AC[which(AC <1)] <- NA
(AC1 <- rowNormalize(AC))
## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
## [1,] NA NA 2.343543 NA 3.870829 NA NaN NA NA
## [2,] 1.388298 NA NA NA NA NA NaN NA 3.597222
## [3,] NA 2 2.343543 3.499743 NA 2.663721 NaN NA NA
## [4,] NA NA NA 3.499743 NA 5.327441 NA NA NA
## [5,] 2.776596 NA NA NA 3.870829 NA NaN NA NA
## [6,] 2.776596 2 NA 3.499743 1.935414 2.663721 NA 2.25 3.597222
## [7,] NA 4 NA 3.499743 3.870829 2.663721 NA NA 7.194444
## [8,] 1.388298 NA NA NA NA 7.991162 NA 2.25 NA
## [9,] NA NA 4.687086 3.499743 NA 2.663721 NA NA 3.597222
## [10,] NA NA NA NA 1.935414 2.663721 NA NA NA
## 10 11
## [1,] 2.583333 NA
## [2,] NA NA
## [3,] NA 3.407407
## [4,] NA 1.703704
## [5,] NA NA
## [6,] NA NA
## [7,] NA 1.703704
## [8,] NA NA
## [9,] NA NA
## [10,] NA NA
Like with normalizeThis() we can define some reference-lines
(only these lines will be considered to determine
normalization-factors)
(AC3 <- rowNormalize(AC, refLines=1:5, omitNonAlignable=TRUE))
## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
## [1,] NA NA 1.909091 NA 1.750 NA NaN NA NA 1.75 NA
## [2,] NaN NA NA NA NA NA NaN NA NaN NA NA
## [3,] NA 2 1.909091 2.409836 NA 2.684932 NaN NA NA NA 4.083333
## [4,] NA NA NA 2.409836 NA 5.369863 NA NA NA NA 2.041667
## [5,] NaN NA NA NA 1.750 NA NaN NA NA NA NA
## [6,] NaN 2 NA 2.409836 0.875 2.684932 NA NaN NaN NA NA
## [7,] NA 4 NA 2.409836 1.750 2.684932 NA NA NaN NA 2.041667
## [8,] NaN NA NA NA NA 8.054795 NA NaN NA NA NA
## [9,] NA NA 3.818182 2.409836 NA 2.684932 NA NA NaN NA NA
## [10,] NA NA NA NA 0.875 2.684932 NA NA NA NA NA
Please note, that the iterative procedure for sparse data
may consume large amounts of computational resources, in particular when
a small number of subgroups has been selected.
Matrix Coordinates Of Values/Points According To Filtering
Sometimes one needs to obtain the coordinates of values/points of a
matrix according to a given filtering condition. The standard approach
using which() gives only a linearized index but not
row/column, which is sufficient for replacing indexed values. If you
need to know the true row/column indexes, you may use
coordOfFilt().
set.seed(2021); ma1 <- matrix(sample.int(n=40, size=27, replace=TRUE), ncol=9)
## let's test which values are >37
which(ma1 >37) # doesn't tell which row & col
## [1] 2 3 6 7 9 14 26
coordOfFilt(ma1, ma1 >37)
## row col
## [1,] 2 1
## [2,] 3 1
## [3,] 3 2
## [4,] 1 3
## [5,] 3 3
## [6,] 2 5
## [7,] 2 9
Trimmed Mean
Under certain circumstances using the trimmed mean may be more stable
towards outlyer values. The base function mean() allows to
preform symmetric trimming, thus with more trimming the result will
start converging to the mean. The function
trimmedMean() gives more flexible options for assinging
different upper- and lower fractions of the initial data to be trimmed.
When outlyer values always appear at the high (or low) end of data, such
proceeding may be useful. However, the user is encouraged to use this
with caution since there is also a risk of introducing bias.
x <- c(17:11,27:28)
mean(x)
## [1] 17
mean(x, trim=0.15) # symmetric trimming
## [1] 16.28571
mean(x[x < 25]) # manual trimming
## [1] 14
trimmedMean(x, trim=c(l=0, u=0.7)) # asymmetric trim
## [1] 13.5
Statistical Testing
Normal Random Number Generation with Close Fit to Expected mean and
sd
When creating random values to an expected mean and
sd, the results ontained using the standard function
rnorm() may deviate somehow from the expected mean and sd,
in particular with low n. To still produce random values
fitting closely to the expected mean and sd you may
use the function rnormW(). The case of n=2 is
quite simple with one possible results. In other cases
(n>2), there will be a random initiation which can be fixed
using the argument seed.
## some sample data :
x1 <- (11:16)[-5]
mean(x1); sd(x1)
## [1] 13.2
## [1] 1.923538
## the standard way for gerenating normal random values
ra1 <- rnorm(n=length(x1), mean=mean(x1), sd=sd(x1))
## In particular with low n, the random values deviate somehow from expected mean and sd :
mean(ra1) -mean(x1)
## [1] -1.103347
sd(ra1) -sd(x1)
## [1] 0.3920622
## random numbers with close fit to expected mean and sd :
ra2 <- rnormW(length(x1), mean(x1), sd(x1))
mean(ra2) -mean(x1)
## [1] 0
sd(ra2) -sd(x1) # much closer to expected value
## [1] -4.440892e-16
Thus, the second data-sets fits even with few n very well to
the global characteristics defined/expected.
Moderated Pair-Wise t-Test from limma
If you are not familiar with the way data is handled in the
Bioconductor package limma
and you would like to use some of the tools for running moderated
t-tests therein, this will provide easy access using
moderTest2grp() :
set.seed(2017); t8 <- matrix(round(rnorm(1600,10,0.4),2), ncol=8,
dimnames=list(paste("l",1:200), c("AA1","BB1","CC1","DD1","AA2","BB2","CC2","DD2")))
t8[3:6,1:2] <- t8[3:6,1:2]+3 # augment lines 3:6 for AA1&BB1
t8[5:8,5:6] <- t8[5:8,5:6]+3 # augment lines 5:8 for AA2&BB2 (c,d,g,h should be found)
t4 <- log2(t8[,1:4]/t8[,5:8])
fit4 <- moderTest2grp(t4, gl(2,2))
## now we'll use limma's topTable() function to look at the 'best' results
if("list" %in% mode(fit4)) { # if you have limma installed we can look further
library(limma)
topTable(fit4, coef=1,n=5) # effect for 3,4,7,8
fit4in <- moderTest2grp(t4, gl(2,2), testO="<")
if("list" %in% mode(fit4in)) topTable(fit4in, coef=1,n=5) }
## moderTest2grp : Testing alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is less than 0 (ie focus on 101 results with A less than B)
## logFC AveExpr t P.Value adj.P.Val B
## l 7 -0.4975806 -0.2436786 -8.712092 3.994695e-17 7.989390e-15 30.668381
## l 4 0.4020373 0.1890232 7.039234 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 17.723883
## l 8 -0.3735170 -0.2259811 -6.539873 9.417239e-11 9.417239e-09 14.392733
## l 3 0.3508834 0.1488240 6.143585 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 11.923522
## l 27 -0.1348878 -0.1011609 -2.361738 9.333949e-03 6.222633e-01 -3.878176
Multiple Moderated Pair-Wise t-Tests From limma
If you want to make multiple pair-wise comparisons using
moderTestXgrp() :
grp <- factor(rep(LETTERS[c(3,1,4)], c(2,3,3)))
set.seed(2017); t8 <- matrix(round(rnorm(208*8,10,0.4),2), ncol=8,
dimnames=list(paste(letters[], rep(1:8,each=26),sep=""), paste(grp,c(1:2,1:3,1:3),sep="")))
t8[3:6,1:2] <- t8[3:6,1:2] +3 # augment lines 3:6 (c-f)
t8[5:8,c(1:2,6:8)] <- t8[5:8,c(1:2,6:8)] -1.5 # lower lines
t8[6:7,3:5] <- t8[6:7,3:5] +2.2 # augment lines
## expect to find C/A in c,d,g, (h)
## expect to find C/D in c,d,e,f
## expect to find A/D in f,g,(h)
test8 <- moderTestXgrp(t8, grp)
head(test8$p.value, n=8)
## A-C A-D C-D
## a1 8.736828e-02 6.776543e-02 9.397304e-01
## b1 4.384118e-01 5.400019e-01 8.205610e-01
## c1 1.094834e-19 6.344497e-01 2.571471e-21
## d1 2.671725e-13 9.915692e-01 2.858699e-13
## e1 1.802454e-03 2.413137e-08 9.735465e-16
## f1 3.188362e-01 2.527208e-32 2.226490e-22
## g1 1.166242e-29 6.410057e-33 5.484445e-01
## h1 1.141181e-05 1.943795e-05 5.674938e-01
Transform p-values To Local False Discovery Rate (lfdr)
To get an introduction into local false discovery rate estimations
you may read Strimmer 2008.
A convenient way to get lfdr values calculated by the package fdrtool is
available via the function pVal2lfdr().
Note, that the toy-example used below is too small for estimating
meaningful lfdr values. For this reason the function fdrtool()
from package fdrtool will issue
warnings.
set.seed(2017); t8 <- matrix(round(rnorm(160,10,0.4),2), ncol=8, dimnames=list(letters[1:20],
c("AA1","BB1","CC1","DD1","AA2","BB2","CC2","DD2")))
t8[3:6,1:2] <- t8[3:6,1:2] +3 # augment lines 3:6 (c-f) for AA1&BB1
t8[5:8,5:6] <- t8[5:8,5:6] +3 # augment lines 5:8 (e-h) for AA2&BB2 (c,d,g,h should be found)
head(pVal2lfdr(apply(t8, 1, function(x) t.test(x[1:4], x[5:8])$p.value)))
## Warning in fdrtool::fdrtool(z, statistic = "pvalue", plot = FALSE, verbose =
## !silent): There may be too few input test statistics for reliable FDR
## calculations!
## a b c d e f
## 1.0000000 0.5753562 0.5753562 1.0000000 1.0000000 1.0000000
Confindence Intervals (under Normal Distribution)
The confindence
interval (CI) is a common way of describing the uncertainity of
measured or estimated values. The function confInt() allows
calculating the confidence interval of the mean (using the functions
qt() and sd()) under a given significance
level (alpha). assuming that the Normal
distribution is valid.
set.seed(2022); ran <- rnorm(50)
confInt(ran, alpha=0.05)
## [1] 0.248199
## plot points and confindence interval of mean
plot(ran, jitter(rep(1, length(ran))), ylim=c(0.95, 1.05), xlab="random variable 'ran'",main="Points and Confidence Interval of Mean (alpha=0.05)", ylab="", las=1)
points(mean(ran), 0.97, pch=3, col=4) # mean
lines(mean(ran) +c(-1, 1) *confInt(ran, 0.05), c(0.97, 0.97), lwd=4, col=4) # CI
legend("topleft","95% conficence interval of mean", text.col=4,col=4,lty=1,lwd=1,seg.len=1.2,cex=0.9,xjust=0,yjust=0.5)
Extract Groups Of Replicates From Pair-Wise Column-Names
When running multiple pairwise tests (using moderTestXgrp())
the column-names are concatenated group-names. To get the index of which
group has been used in which pair-wise set you may use the function
matchSampToPairw(), as shown below.
## make example if limma is not installed
if(!requireNamespace("limma", quietly=TRUE)) test8 <- list(FDR=matrix(1, nrow=2, ncol=3, dimnames=list(NULL,c("A-C","A-D","C-D"))))
matchSampToPairw(unique(grp), colnames(test8$FDR))
## le ri
## A-C 2 1
## A-D 2 3
## C-D 1 3
Extract Numeric Part Of Column-Names
When running multiple pairwise tests (using moderTestXgrp())
the results will be in adjacent columns and the group-names reflected in
the column-names. In the case measurements from multiple levels of a
given variable are compared it is useful to extract the numeric part,
the function numPairDeColNames() provides support to do so.
When extracting just the numeric part, unit names will get lost, though.
Note, if units used are not constant (eg seconds and milliseconds mixed)
the extracted numeric values do not reflect the real quantitative
context any more.
mat1 <- matrix(1:8, nrow=2, dimnames=list(NULL, paste0(1:4,"-",6:9)))
numPairDeColNames(mat1)
## numPartDeColNames : PROBLEM ? : 'stripTxt' does REMOVE the separator 'sep' ! Select a different separator or 'stripTxt' strategy to resolve pairwise combinations !
## index log2rat conc1 conc2
## [1,] 1 2.585 1 6
## [2,] 2 1.807 2 7
## [3,] 3 1.415 3 8
## [4,] 4 1.170 4 9
Automatic Determination Of Replicate Structure Based On
Meta-Data
In order to run statistical testing the user must know which sample
should be considered replicate of whom. The function ()
aims to provide help by checking all column of a matrix of meta-data
with the aim of identifying the replicate-status.
To do so, all columns are examined how many groups of replicats they
may design. Depending on the argumen method various options for
choosing automatically exist : The default method=“combAll”
will select the column with the median number of groups (not counting
all-different or all-same columns)). When using as
method=“combAll” (ie combine all columns that are neither
all-different nor all-same), there is risk all lines (samples) will be
be considered different and no replicates remain. To avoid this
situation the argument -method_ can be set to “combNonOrth”.
Then, it will be checked if adding more columns will lead to complete
loss of replicates, and -if so- concerned columns omitted.
## column a is all different, b is groups of 2,
## c & d are groups of 2 nut NOT 'same general' pattern as b
strX <- data.frame(a=letters[18:11], b=letters[rep(c(3:1,4), each=2)],
c=letters[rep(c(5,8:6), each=2)], d=letters[c(1:2,1:3,3:4,4)],
e=letters[rep(c(4,8,4,7),each=2)], f=rep("z",8) )
strX
## a b c d e f
## 1 r c e a d z
## 2 q c e b d z
## 3 p b h a h z
## 4 o b h b h z
## 5 n a g c d z
## 6 m a g c d z
## 7 l d f d g z
## 8 k d f d g z
replicateStructure(strX[,1:2])
## $col
## b
## 2
##
## $lev
## c c b b a a d d
## 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4
##
## $meth
## [1] "single informative col"
replicateStructure(strX[,1:4], method="combAll")
## $col
## b d
## 2 4
##
## $lev
## c_a c_b b_a b_b a_c a_c d_d d_d
## 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 6
##
## $meth
## [1] "comb all col"
replicateStructure(strX[,1:4], method="combAll", exclNoRepl=FALSE)
## $col
## a
## 1
##
## $lev
## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
##
## $meth
## [1] "(shortcut, first) single col at max divergence"
##
## $allCols
## a b c d
## [1,] 1 1 1 1
## [2,] 2 1 1 2
## [3,] 3 2 2 1
## [4,] 4 2 2 2
## [5,] 5 3 3 3
## [6,] 6 3 3 3
## [7,] 7 4 4 4
## [8,] 8 4 4 4
replicateStructure(strX[,1:4], method="combNonOrth", exclNoRepl=TRUE)
## $col
## b d
## 2 4
##
## $lev
## c_a c_b b_a b_b a_c a_c d_d d_d
## 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 6
##
## $meth
## [1] "combNonOrth col"
replicateStructure(strX, method="lowest")
## $col
## e
## 5
##
## $lev
## d d h h d d g g
## 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 3
##
## $meth
## [1] "single min col"
