Translate names based on a provided mapping

Map names from one software to another. The function replaces elements in the input vector x with their corresponding values in the mapping if a match is found. If an element in x does not have a corresponding mapping, it is returned unchanged with a warning.

Usage

translate(x = character(), mapping = NULL)

Arguments

x

character vector of names to be translated.

mapping

A named character vector that defines the mapping for translation. The names of the vector should be the original names and the values should be the translated names.

Value

A character vector with the translated names.

See also

Other name translation functions: guessSource(), nameMapping(), softwareMapping(), softwareMappingSchema()

Author

Gabriele Tomè

Examples

## MS-Dial names
x <- c("Average Rt(min)", "Alignment ID", "Average Mz")
map_vec <- nameMapping(from = "MS-Dial", to = "mzTab-M")
translate(x, mapping = map_vec)
#>             Average Rt(min)                Alignment ID 
#> "retention_time_in_seconds"                    "SMF_ID" 
#>                  Average Mz 
#>        "exp_mass_to_charge"