saveDict: Write a PGCA dictionary to a text file
In pgca: PGCA: An Algorithm to Link Protein Groups Created from MS/MS Data

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

View source: R/utilities.R

Write the dictionary to a text file using the write.table function. By default, a tab-separated file is written, but this can be changed by changing the arguments to write.table.

1	saveDict(dict, file = stop("`file` must be specified"), ...)

`dict`	a PGCA dictionary.
`file`	either a character string naming a file or a `connection` open for writing. `""` indicates output to the console.
`...`	further arguments passed to `write.table`.

This function returns NULL invisibly.

pgcaDict to create the dictionary, and applyDict to apply the dictionary for translating data files.

# Build accession dictionary from all files in a directory
dict <- pgcaDict(
         system.file("extdata", package="pgca"),
         col.mapping=c(gene.symbol="Gene_Symbol")
)

# Save dictionary to a temporary file
dictOutFile <- tempfile()
saveDict(dict, file=dictOutFile)

# Change the separator string to a tab
dictOutFile <- tempfile()
saveDict(dict, file=dictOutFile, sep="\t")