Received via GitHub https://github.com/Oshlack/splatter/issues/42

When I try to access the normalized counts from a path simulation, I get the following error:

Error in assay(object, i = exprs_values) : 
  'assay(<SingleCellExperiment>, i="character", ...)' invalid subscript 'i'
'i' not in names(assays(<SingleCellExperiment>))

The code that creates the issue is as follows:

sim.paths <- splatSimulate(method="paths")
sim.paths <- normalise(sim.paths)
normX <- normcounts(sim.paths)

The normcounts function is a shortcut for accessing an assay named normcounts. Neither the simulation functions in Splatter or the normalise function (which is in the scater package) create this assay, which is why you are seeing the error. You can see what assays are present using assayNames(sim.paths) and access them using assay(sim.paths, "assayname").

You might want to take a look at the documentation for the SingleCellExperiment and SummarizedExperiment packages to learn about the structure of the objects produced by Splatter and how to access them.