magePackageDetector {MAGEML}R Documentation

Find MAGE-ML packages in xml files

Description

To reduce the size of xml documents it is possible that one splits one MAGE-ML documents into smaller documents, each containing some of the packages. To be able to construct BioConductor objects with the MAGEML library, one needs to specifiy in which files the needed packages reside. This function is handy to find out which MAGE-ML packages are in which xml files.

Usage

magePackageDetector(fnames = "", datadir = ".")

Arguments

fnames List of filenames that belong to the same experiment
datadir The directory where XML file resides.

Value

Prints out the filename and MAGE-ML packages present in that file

Author(s)

Joke Allemeersch, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~jallemee
Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck.

References

Spellman PT, Miller M, Stewart J, Troup C, Sarkans U, Chervitz S, Bernhart D, Sherlock G, Ball C, Lepage M, Swiatek M, Marks WL, Goncalves J, Markel S, Iordan D, Shojatalab M, Pizarro A, White J, Hubley R, Deutsch E, Senger M, Aronow BJ, Robinson A, Bassett D, Stoeckert CJ Jr and Brazma A. Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML). Genome Biol. 2002 Aug 23;3(9):RESEARCH0046.

See Also

readMageRaw, readMageDesign

Examples

data <- system.file("data", package="MAGEML")
magePackageDetector(fnames=list("A-MEXP-5.xml", "E-MEXP-5.xml"),datadir=data)

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