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SplitObject

Splits object into a list of subsetted objects.

Description

Splits object based on a single attribute into a list of subsetted objects, one for each level of the attribute. For example, useful for taking an object that contains cells from many patients, and subdividing it into patient-specific objects.

Usage

SplitObject(object, split.by = "ident")

Arguments

`object`	Seurat object
`split.by`	Attribute for splitting. Default is "ident". Currently only supported for class-level (i.e. non-quantitative) attributes.

Value

A named list of Seurat objects, each containing a subset of cells from the original object.

Examples

data("pbmc_small")
# Assign the test object a three level attribute
groups <- sample(c("group1", "group2", "group3"), size = 80, replace = TRUE)
names(groups) <- colnames(pbmc_small)
pbmc_small <- AddMetaData(object = pbmc_small, metadata = groups, col.name = "group")
obj.list <- SplitObject(pbmc_small, split.by = "group")

Seurat

Tools for Single Cell Genomics

v4.0.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

Andrew Butler [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3608-0463>), Saket Choudhary [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5202-7633>), Charlotte Darby [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-5300>), Jeff Farrell [ctb], Christoph Hafemeister [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6365-8254>), Yuhan Hao [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1810-0822>), Paul Hoffman [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7693-8957>), Jaison Jain [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9478-5018>), Efthymia Papalexi [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5898-694X>), Patrick Roelli [ctb], Rahul Satija [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9448-8833>), Karthik Shekhar [ctb], Avi Srivastava [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9798-2079>), Tim Stuart [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3044-0897>), Kristof Torkenczy [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4869-7957>), Shiwei Zheng [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6682-6743>), Satija Lab and Collaborators [fnd]

Initial release

2021-03-17