attributeSummary {biomaRt}R Documentation

Gives a summary of the attributes groups and categories

Description

Attributes in BioMart databases are grouped together in attribute groups and attribute groups can in their turn form a higher collection in an attribute category. The attributeSummary function gives a summary of the attribute categories and groups present in the BioMart. These group and category names can be used to display only a subset of the available attributes in the listAttributes function.

Usage

attributeSummary(mart)

Arguments

mart object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart database. You have to create such an object using the function useMart and update this Mart object by selecting a dataset.

Author(s)

Steffen Durinck

Examples


if(interactive()){

#marts <- listMarts()
#index<-grep("ensembl",marts)
#mart <- useMart(marts[index])
#datasets <- listDatasets(mart)
#mart <- useDataset(datasets[1],mart = mart)
#attributeSummary(mart)
}

[Package biomaRt version 1.10.1 Index]