Count targets in data frame

Count occurrence of targets in a data frame.

count_target(df, col.target = Target, add.df = TRUE)

Arguments

df	Data frame containing a column with targets.
col.target	Symbol. Column containing targets.
add.df	Boolean. If add.df = TRUE, adds column Target_count to df containing the count of targets. If add.df = FALSE, returns a new data frame with the count of targets.

Value

Data frame, either with the targets and their frequency as a new data frame, or with the frequency of targets added as a new column to the input data frame df.

Details

Count occurrence of targets in a data frame. The count of targets can either be returned as a separate data frame, only listing the targets and their respective frequency, or it can be added to the data frame provided as an extra column.

See also

join_targets(), plot_target_count()

Other target functions: join_mirtarbase(), join_targets(), plot_target_count(), plot_target_mir_scatter()