saveOldIntensityColumns       package:RNAither       R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Duplicates the specified column and adds it to the end of the
     dataset.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     saveOldIntensityColumns(dataset, col4val)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

 dataset: an R data frame generated with 'generateDatasetFile' 

 col4val: a character string specifying the column whose values will be
          saved as an extra column before normalization 

_V_a_l_u_e:

     The values in the chosen column are saved in an extra column with
     the suffix ".old".

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(exampleDataset, package="RNAither")
     newdataset <- saveOldIntensityColumns(dataset, "SigIntensity")

