Helper Function to Order Gene Choices

The possible gene choices are ordered as follows. First come all genes which have a non-empty name, ordered by their name alphabetically. Last come all genes with an empty name, ordered by their ID alphabetically.

Usage

h_order_genes(genes)

Arguments

genes

(data.frame)
containing id and name columns of the gene choices. Note that no missing values are allowed.

Value

The ordered data.frame.

Examples

genes <- data.frame(
  id = c("7", "1", "2", "345346", "0"),
  name = c("e", "", "c", "", "a")
)
h_order_genes(genes)
#>       id name
#> 5      0    a
#> 3      2    c
#> 1      7    e
#> 2      1     
#> 4 345346