read a metadata tsv file and convert to long form

This is basically an auxilliary function for converting datasets from the wide-format metadata to long-form, or "tidy" format.

study_long_form(fname)

Arguments

fname

character(1) giving a path to one of the metadata.tsv files.

Value

a 6-column dataframe

See also

metadata_long_form()

Author

Sean Davis <seandavi@gmail.com>