exportSCEtoFlatFile {singleCellTK} | R Documentation

## Export a SingleCellExperiment object to flat text files

### Description

Writes all assays, colData, rowData, reducedDims, and altExps objects in a SingleCellExperiment to text files. The items in the 'metadata' slot remain stored in list and are saved in an RDS file.

### Usage

    exportSCEtoFlatFile(
      sce,
      outputDir = "./",
      overwrite = TRUE,
      gzipped = TRUE,
      prefix = "SCE"
    )

### Arguments

`sce` | SingleCellExperiment object to be exported.
`outputDir` | Name of the directory to store the exported file(s).
`overwrite` | Boolean. Whether to overwrite the output files. Default `TRUE`.
`gzipped` | Boolean. `TRUE` if the output files are to be gzip compressed. `FALSE` otherwise. Default `TRUE`.
`prefix` | Prefix of file names.

### Value

Generates text files containing data from `inSCE`.

### Examples

    data(sce_chcl, package = "scds")
    ## Not run:
    exportSCEtoFlatFile(sce_chcl, "sce_chcl")

    ## End(Not run)

[Package singleCellTK version 2.2.0 Index]