Compute a Correlation Matrix — correlation • metanetwork

Compute a Correlation matrix from a an expression matrix and writes to a user specified path. Correlation network is saved as correlationNetwork.csv on the path specified by `outputpath`.

Usage

correlation(data, path = NULL, method = "pearson", outputpath)

Arguments

data: The input expression/numerical data matrix
path: Optional. Currently not implemented in the function
method: Optional. The type of correlation to be implemented. Options are one of; c('pearson','spearman','kendall'). (Default = pearson)
outputpath: The file path to save the correlation network to.

Value

Returns no value direct to R. This function saves the correlation network as correlationNetwork.csv on the path specified by `outputpath`.