extrSpcText: Extract specific text

In wrMisc: Analyze Experimental High-Throughput (Omics) Data

Extract specific text

Description

This function extracts/cuts text-fragments out of txt following specific anchors defined by arguments cutFrom and cutTo.

Usage

extrSpcText(
  txt,
  cutFrom = " GN=",
  cutTo = " PE=",
  missingAs = NA,
  exclFromTag = TRUE,
  silent = FALSE,
  debug = FALSE,
  callFrom = NULL
)

Arguments

txt	character vector to be treated
cutFrom	(character) text where to start cutting
cutTo	(character) text where to stop cutting
missingAs	(character) specific content of output at line/location of 'exclLi'
exclFromTag	(logical) to exclude text given in 'cutFrom' from result
silent	(logical) suppress messages
debug	(logical) additional messages for debugging
callFrom	(character) allow easier tracking of messages produced

Details

In case cutFrom is not found missingAs will be returned. In case cutTo is not found, text gets extracted with chaMaxEl characters.

Value

This function returns a modified character vector

See Also

substr

Examples

extrSpcText(c(" ghjg GN=thisText PE=001"," GN=_ PE=", NA, "abcd"))
extrSpcText(c("ABCDEF.3-6","05g","bc.4-5"), cutFr="\\.", cutT="-")

wrMisc documentation built on Nov. 17, 2023, 5:09 p.m.