Replace column metadata in a spatial object

Replace column metadata in a spatial object

Usage

setMetadata(x, metadata)

Arguments

x

A SpatialExperiment or Seurat object.

metadata

A data-frame-like object with one row per spot. Named rows are reordered to match the object before assignment.

Value

x with replaced column metadata.

Examples

spe <- STexampleData::Visium_humanDLPFC()
#> see ?STexampleData and browseVignettes('STexampleData') for documentation
#> loading from cache
metadata <- getMetadata(spe)
metadata$example_column <- seq_len(nrow(metadata))
spe <- setMetadata(spe, metadata)