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 % Please edit documentation in R/exportSCEtoTXT.R

 \name{exportSCEtoFlatFile}
 \alias{exportSCEtoFlatFile}

 \title{Export a \link[SingleCellExperiment]{SingleCellExperiment} object to flat text files}

 \usage{

 exportSCEtoFlatFile(
   sce,
   outputDir = "./",
   overwrite = TRUE,
   gzipped = TRUE,

   prefix = "SCE"

 )

 }
 \arguments{
 \item{sce}{\link[SingleCellExperiment]{SingleCellExperiment} object to be
 exported.}
 
 \item{outputDir}{Name of the directory to store the exported file(s).}
 
 \item{overwrite}{Boolean. Whether to overwrite the output files. Default

 \code{TRUE}.}

 
 \item{gzipped}{Boolean. \code{TRUE} if the output files are to be
 gzip compressed. \code{FALSE} otherwise. Default

 \code{TRUE}.}

 \item{prefix}{Prefix of file names.}

 }

 \value{
 Generates text files containing data from \code{inSCE}.
 }

 \description{

 Writes all assays, colData, rowData, reducedDims, and altExps objects in a
 \link[SingleCellExperiment]{SingleCellExperiment} to text files.
 The items in the 'metadata' slot remain stored in list and are saved in an RDS file.

 }
 \examples{
 data(sce_chcl, package = "scds")

 \dontrun{

 exportSCEtoFlatFile(sce_chcl, "sce_chcl")

 }

 }