CsvToJMat {jmatrix}

CsvToJMat

Description

Gets a csv/tsv file and writes to a disk file the binary matrix of counts contained in it in the jmatrix binary format.
First line of the .csv is supposed to have the field names.
First column of each line is supposed to have the row name.
The fields are supposed to be separated by one occurrence of a character-field sepparator (usually, comma or tab) .tsv files can be read with this function, too, setting the csep argument to '\t'

Usage

CsvToJMat(
  ifname,
  ofname,
  mtype = "sparse",
  csep = ",",
  ctype = "raw",
  valuetype = "float",
  transpose = FALSE,
  comment = ""
)

Arguments

ifname

A string with the name of the .csv/.tsv text file.

ofname

A string with the name of the binary output file.

mtype

A string to indicate the matrix type: 'full', 'sparse' or 'symmetric'. Default: 'sparse'

csep

The character used as separator in the .csv file. Default: ',' (comma) (Set to '\t' for .tsv)

ctype

The string 'raw' or 'log1' to write raw counts or log(counts+1), or the normalized versions, 'rawn' and 'log1n', which normalize ALWAYS BY COLUMNS (before transposition, if requested to transpose). The logarithm is taken base 2. Default: raw

valuetype

The data type to store the matrix. It must be one of the strings 'uint32', 'float' or 'double'. Default: float

transpose

Boolean to indicate if the matrix should be transposed before writing. See Details for a comment about this. Default: FALSE

comment

A comment to be stored with the matrix. Default: "" (no comment)

Details

The parameter transpose has the default value of FALSE. But don't forget to set it to TRUE if you want the cells (which in single cell common practice are by columns) to be written by rows. This will be needed later to calculate the dissimilarity matrix, if this is the next step of your workflow. See help of CalcAndWriteDissimilarityMatrix

Special note for loading symmetric matrices:
If you use this function to load what you expect to be a symmetric matrix from a .csv file, remember that the input table MUST be square, but only the lower-diagonal matrix will be stored, including the main diagonal. The rest of the input table is completely ignored, except to check that there are values in it. It is not checked if the table really represents a symmetric matrix or not.
Furthermore, symmetric matrices can only be loaded in raw mode, i.e.: no normalization is allowed, and they cannot be transposed.

Value

No return value, called for side effects (creates a file)

Examples

# Since we have no a .csv file to test, we will generate one with another funcion of this package
Rf <- matrix(runif(48),nrow=6)
rownames(Rf) <- c("A","B","C","D","E","F")
colnames(Rf) <- c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h")
tmpfile1=paste0(tempdir(),"/Rfullfloat.bin")
tmpfile2=paste0(tempdir(),"/Rfullfloat2.bin")
tmpcsvfile1=paste0(tempdir(),"/Rfullfloat.csv")
JWriteBin(Rf,tmpfile1,dtype="float",dmtype="full",comment="Full matrix of floats")
JMatToCsv(tmpfile1,tmpcsvfile1)
CsvToJMat(tmpcsvfile1,tmpfile2)
# It can be checked that files Rfullfloat.bin and Rfullfloat2.bin contain the same data
# (even they differ in the comment, which has been eliminated when converting to csv)