readNetAffx: Update or read a NetAffx data base

In AffyCompatible: Affymetrix GeneChip software compatibility

Description

This function provides a way to read or update a NetAffx data base. The usual use for this is to force the data base description to be updated (by accessing the Affymetrix web site) or to retrieve the entire list of NetAffx resource data base. A more normal use case is to

Usage

readNetAffx(netAffxResource, update = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

netAffxResource	An object of class NetAffxResource containing the path to the local data base, and permissions for access the Affymetrix NetAffx resource.
update	An object of logical(1) indicating whether the data base is to be updated (TRUE) or not.
...	Additional arguments, not currently used.

Value

An object representing the annotations found; see NetAffxResource for additional details.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan

Examples

## retrieve all annotations
## Not run: 
example("NetAffxResource-class")
readNetAffx(rsrc)

## End(Not run)

AffyCompatible documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 8:15 p.m.