Combining Expression Matrices

Description

The method cbind.ExpressionSet combines sample expression profiles from multiple ExpressionSet or matrix objects.

Usage

S3 (ExpressionSet)
`cbind`(..., deparse.level = 1)

Arguments

...
series of ExpressionSet and/or matrix objects.
deparse.level
integer controlling the construction of labels in the case of non-matrix-like arguments (for the default method): deparse.level = 0 constructs no labels; the default, deparse.level = 1 or 2 constructs labels from the argument names, see the ‘Value’ section below.

Value

an ExpressionSet object

Details

The expression matrices must be exactly of the same dimensions. For the end result to be meaningful, one probably wants the row names to match as well, i.e. both object contain the same features, in the same order. However no check is done for this.

Note that the returned ExpressionSet object has no sample or feature annotations.