compactList: Concatenate list elements

In annotationTools: Annotate microarrays and perform cross-species gene expression analyses using flat file databases

Description

Concatenates given elements of a list.

Usage

compactList(lst,l)

Arguments

lst	list object
l	numeric vector specifying the number of list elements to be concatenated sequentially

Details

By definition, the output list is shorter than the input list.

Function stops if 'sum(l)' does not equal 'lenght(lst)'.

Value

clst	list of length 'length(l)' where the 'i'-th element has length 'l[i]' and contains concatenated elements of input list 'lst'.

Author(s)

Alexandre Kuhn

References

Kuhn et al. Cross-species and cross-platform gene expression studies with the Bioconductor-compliant R package 'annotationTools'. BMC Bioinformatics, 9:26 (2008)

Examples

##an example list
lst<-vector('list',3)
lst[[1]]<-c('aaa','bbb')
lst[[2]]<-'ccc'
lst[[3]]<-'zzz'
##merge first 2 list elements
compactList(lst,c(2,1))

annotationTools documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 6:58 p.m.