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> library("Mercator")
Loading required package: Thresher
Loading required package: ClassDiscovery
Loading required package: cluster
Loading required package: oompaBase
Loading required package: PCDimension
> data("CML500")
> 
> ### need a plain old binary matrix
> working <- t(CML500@binmat)
> feat <- CML500@columnInfo
> sams <- CML500@rowInfo
> dim(working)
[1] 511 770
> dim(feat)
[1] 511   3
> dim(sams)
[1] 770   6
> 
> plain <- BinaryMatrix(working) # default row and column info
> colonly <- BinaryMatrix(working, sams)
> 
> # construction, using both info parts
> egg <- BinaryMatrix(working, sams, feat)
> summary(egg)
An object of the 'BinaryMatrix' class, of size
[1] 511 770
History:
[1] "Newly created."
> 
> # remove extra identical feature vectors
> egg <- removeDuplicateFeatures(egg)
> summary(egg)
An object of the 'BinaryMatrix' class, of size
[1] 511 446
History:
[1] "Newly created."      "Duplicates removed."
> all( dim(egg) == c(511, 446) )
[1] TRUE
> 
> # transposing back using the t-operator.
> gge <- t(egg)
> summary(gge)
An object of the 'BinaryMatrix' class, of size
[1] 446 511
History:
[1] "Newly created."      "Duplicates removed." "transposed"         
> 
> proc.time()
   user  system elapsed 
   2.70    0.35    3.04