getBcViews {biocViews} | R Documentation |
build a view-package association list
getBcViews(packnames, vocab, root, interp=TRUE)
packnames |
vector of package names; all named packages must be installed |
vocab |
vocabulary graph |
root |
root of vocabulary |
interp |
logical: if TRUE, then associate each package with all terms that are hypernyms of those to which it is directly associated |
extracts the biocViews tag value from each DESCRIPTION file, parses it (it must have x, y, z format, not hugging commas), and builds the view-package association list (one vector element per topic)
a named list with one element per used topic and a vector of package names in each element
Vince Carey <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>
pl <- c("Biobase", "clusterStab", "limmaGUI", "GeneTS", "RBGL") data(sep05) getBcViews(pl,sep05)