SE2DGEList {edgeR} | R Documentation

## SummarizedExperiment to DGEList

### Description

Given any `SummarizedExperiment` data object, extract basic information needed and convert it into a `DGEList` object.

### Usage

    SE2DGEList(object)

### Arguments

`object` | a `SummarizedExperiment` object. Must have `counts` in its assay component.

### Details

This function takes a `SummarizedExperiment` data object as input. The `counts` of the assay component of the input `SummarizedExperiment` data object is extracted and used as the `counts` component of the output `DGEList` object. The `rowRanges` or `rowData` of the input is converted into a `data.frame` and used as `genes` in the output. The `colData` of the input is also converted into a `data.frame` and used as the sample information in the output.

### Value

A `DGEList` object.

### Author(s)

Yunshun Chen and Gordon Smyth

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    library(SummarizedExperiment)
    example(SummarizedExperiment)
    y <- SE2DGEList(se)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package edgeR version 3.34.1 Index]