Export SummarizedExperiment to bettr JSON format

Export a bettr SummarizedExperiment object to a standardized JSON format that can be re-imported using bettrSEFromJSON.

Usage

bettrToJSON(bettrSE, file = NULL, pretty = TRUE)

Arguments

bettrSE

A SummarizedExperiment object created by assembleSE.

file

Character scalar, path to the output JSON file. If NULL, returns the JSON string without writing to file.

pretty

Logical scalar, whether to format the JSON output with indentation for readability (default: TRUE).

Value

If file is NULL, returns a JSON string. Otherwise, writes to file and returns the file path invisibly.

Author

Daniel Incicau

Examples

df <- data.frame(Method = c("M1", "M2", "M3"),
                 metric1 = c(1, 2, 3),
                 metric2 = c(3, 1, 2))
bettrSE <- assembleSE(df = df)
json_str <- bettrToJSON(bettrSE)