read_gmt_list: Calling C routine to read GMT file into a list

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Calling C routine to read GMT file into a list

Description

The function read_gmt_list calls the C routine read_gmt to read GMT file into a list.

Usage

read_gmt_list(gmt.file)

Arguments

gmt.file

Character, name of one gmt-format file

Details

Empty lines or lines without genes are omitted.Empty fields in “genes” are omitted as well.

Value

A list, the length of which equals the number of genesets. Each list contains three items:

name	Character, gene set name
description	Character, gene set description
genes	Character vector, genes in the set

Author(s)

Jitao David Zhang <[e-mail]>

Examples

idir <- system.file("extdata", package="ribiosIO")
sample.gmt.file <- file.path(idir, "test.gmt")

test.gmt <- read_gmt_list(sample.gmt.file)

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