This pure helper updates the raw experiment leaf and returns a modified copy
of x. It never changes feature identifiers or assay values.
Arguments
- x
A
MultiAssayExperimentobject.- experiment
Optional experiment name.
- value
A feature-named atomic vector, or a feature-by-covariate data frame or matrix with feature row names.
- name
Optional name for a single metadata column. It is required for vector
valueand may rename a one-column data frame or matrix.- overwrite
Replace metadata columns already present in the experiment.