Manually merge ROIs

Usage

mergeROI(spe, merge.list, id = "component", rename = FALSE)

Arguments

spe: A SpatialExperiment object.
merge.list: A (named) list of vectors of ROI ids to be merged. Each vector in the list should be of length greater than or equal to 2. If no name is specified, the merged ROI will be named by concatenating ROIs being merged.
id: Character. The name of the column in spe@metadata$roi that stores the ROIs to be merged. Default is "component".
rename: Logical. If TRUE, names of merge.list are ignored. ROIs will be given a new name. For the unmerged ROIs, their new names are not necessarily the same as those before merging.

Value

A SpatialExperiment object.

Examples


data("xenium_bc_spe")

coi <- c("Breast cancer", "Fibroblasts")

spe <- gridDensity(spe, coi = coi)

spe <- findROI(spe, coi = coi, method = "walktrap")

spe <- mergeROI(spe, list("1-2" = 1:2))