defunct {scran} | R Documentation

## Defunct functions

### Description

Functions that have passed on to the function afterlife. Their successors are also listed.

### Usage

    trendVar(...)

    decomposeVar(...)

    testVar(...)

    improvedCV2(...)

    technicalCV2(...)

    makeTechTrend(...)

    multiBlockVar(...)

    multiBlockNorm(...)

    overlapExprs(...)

    parallelPCA(...)

### Arguments

`...` | Ignored arguments.

### Details

`trendVar`, `decomposeVar` and `testVar` are succeeded by a suite of funtions related to `modelGeneVar` and `fitTrendVar`.

`improvedCV2` and `technicalCV2` are succeeded by `modelGeneCV2` and `fitTrendCV2`.

`makeTechTrend` is succeeded by `modelGeneVarByPoisson`.

`multiBlockVar` is succeeded by the `block` argument in many of the modelling functions, and `multiBlockNorm` is no longer necessary.

`overlapExprs` is succeeded by `findMarkers` with `test.type="wilcox"`.

`parallelPCA` has been moved over to the PCAtools package.

### Value

All functions error out with a defunct message pointing towards its descendent (if available).

### Author(s)

Aaron Lun

### Examples

    try(trendVar())

[Package scran version 1.16.0 Index]