Validate columns in spatial-object metadata

Validate columns in spatial-object metadata

Usage

validateMetadataColumns(x, required_columns)

Arguments

x

A SpatialExperiment or Seurat object.

required_columns

Character vector of required metadata column names.

Value

TRUE, invisibly. An error is raised if columns are missing.

Examples

spe <- STexampleData::Visium_humanDLPFC()
#> see ?STexampleData and browseVignettes('STexampleData') for documentation
#> loading from cache
validateMetadataColumns(spe, c("sample_id", "in_tissue"))