make.nested.metadata.Rd

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\name{make.nested.metadata}
\alias{make.nested.metadata}
\title{Make nested data frames}
\usage{
make.nested.metadata(cancer_metadata, cancer_data, key = "case_id")
}
\arguments{
\item{cancer_metadata}{Meta data provided by TCGA}

\item{cancer_data}{A large list created prior by multimodalR}

\item{key}{Character or integer - Column name or index of unique identifier, default = "case_id"}
}
\value{
Returns a list of data frames for every gene
}
\description{
Create a data frame of metadata for every gene. The case_id are taken from cancer_data and are matched against cancer_metadata. An additional
column "group" is appended to the data table. The column "group" represents the modality of the gene expression.
}
\examples{
lungMetaExpression <- nested.metadata(lungMetaData, lungXY)
}