getBcViews {biocViews}R Documentation

build a view-package association list, with optional interpolation

Description

build a view-package association list

Usage

getBcViews(packnames, vocab, root, interp=TRUE)

Arguments

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

Details

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)

Value

a named list with one element per used topic and a vector of package names in each element

Author(s)

Vince Carey <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>

Examples

pl <- c("Biobase", "clusterStab", "limmaGUI", "GeneTS", "RBGL")
data(sep05)
getBcViews(pl,sep05)

[Package biocViews version 0.2.0 Index]