Validate sample information

Evaluates integrity of the grouping variable at the sample information data frame.

validateSampInfo(
  sampInfo,
  groupCol,
  mat,
  checkNames = TRUE,
  checkSingleSample = TRUE
)

Arguments

sampInfo	The sample information data frame.
groupCol	The column containing the grouping variable.
mat	Matrix containing data. If provided, it will check number of columns in mat.
checkNames	Check if grouping variable contains syntactically valid names? If TRUE, they are fixed in the output data frame.
checkSingleSample	Check if any group contains only one sample? A warning message appears if true.

Value

The checked sampInfo data frame