getBiocViews: Build a list of BiocView objects from a package repository
In biocViews: Categorized views of R package repositories

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Given the URL to a CRAN-style package repository containing a VIEWS file at the top-level and a graph-class object representing a DAG of views, this function returns a list of BiocView-class objects.

1	getBiocViews(reposUrl, vocab, defaultView, local = FALSE, htmlDir = "")

`reposUrl`	URL for a CRAN-style repository that hosts a `VIEWS` file at the top-level.
`vocab`	A `graph-class` object representing the ontology of views. This graph should be a directed acyclic graph (DAG).
`defaultView`	A string giving the term to use for packages that do not list a term of their own via the `biocViews` field in the ‘DESCRIPTION’ file.
`local`	logical indicating whether to assume a local package repository. The default is `FALSE` in which case absolute links to package detail pages are created.
`htmlDir`	if the `local` argument is `TRUE`, this will be used as the relative path for package HTML files.

A list of BiocView-class objects. The names of the list give the name of the corresponding view.

Seth Falcon

write_VIEWS, writeBiocViews

data(biocViewsVocab)
reposPath <- system.file("doc", package="biocViews")
reposUrl <- paste("file://", reposPath, sep="")
biocViews <- getBiocViews(reposUrl, biocViewsVocab, "NoViewProvided")
print(biocViews[1:2])