getIdConversionChoices: Retrieve all possible values defining the type of the...
In DAVIDQuery: Retrieval from the DAVID bioinformatics data resource into R

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Retrieve all possible values defining the type of the submitted ID list as well as the type of conversion when using the ID conversion tool

1 2	getIdConversionChoices(urlBase=DAVIDURLBase, curl=RCurl::getCurlHandle(), verbose=TRUE)

`urlBase`	the DAVID main page url. Default is DAVIDURLBase.
`curl`	RCurl handle. Default is getCurlHandle()
`verbose`	if TRUE enables diagnostic messages

When the getIdConversionChoicesgets called the first time within the R session, it retrieves the set of annotation values from the DAVID web services, stores them within the DAVIDTypeChoices data structure and then reuses it in subsequent calls.

the list containing two data frames, 'to' and 'from', the first representing set of possible identifiers used when submitting the ID list, and the second representing set of possible identifiers the ID list can be converted to

Roger Day, Alex Lisovich

getAnnotationChoices, getAffyChipTypes, convertIDList, DAVIDQuery

## Not run: 
#retrieve the ID set for conversion 
idChoices<-getIdConversionChoices();
#display choice dialog
item<-menu(graphics = TRUE, title = "Select Identifier",  idChoices$from[,"name"]);
#retrieve identifier for subsequent conversion
ident<-idChoices$from[item,"value"];

## End(Not run)