block_tidydesign {gcplyr}

Turn tidydesign into block format

Description

This function allows users to convert designs created with tidydesign into a block format for easy output to csv for inclusion in lab notebooks, etc in a human-readable format

Usage

block_tidydesign(
  tidydesign,
  collapse = NULL,
  wellnames_sep = "_",
  wellnames_colname = "Well"
)

Arguments

tidydesign

A tidydesign data.frame (e.g. as created by make_tidydesign)

collapse

NULL or a string to use for concatenating design elements together. If NULL each design column will be put into its own block. If a string, that string will be used to paste together all design elements and all design elements will be returned in a single block

wellnames_sep

A string used when concatenating rownames and column names to create well names

wellnames_colname

Header for newly-created column containing the well names

Value

A list of blockdesign data.frames (if collapse is not NULL the list is of length 1