Convenience method to subset the colData out of the rawdata slot using the assigned colDataMap metadata.

Convenience method to subset the colData out of the rawdata slot using the assigned colDataMap metadata.

Usage

# S4 method for TREDataMapper
colData(x, key = TRUE)

Arguments

x

TREDataMapper object with valid data in the rawdata and colDataMap slots.

key

logical(1) Should the table be keyed according to the id_columns of the colDataMap slot? This will sort the table in memory. Default is TRUE.

Value

data.table The colData as specified in the colDataMap slot.