getadesc: Get An Assay Description
In CDK-R/rpubchem: An Interface to the PubChem Collection

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PubChem stores a number of pieces of information for each bio-assay. These include the description of the assay, related comments as well as type information (name, units, description) for the extra columns in the assay data.

This method accesses the description information and extracts a subset of that available.

1	get.assay.desc(aid)

aid

A valid assay ID. This can be obtained using find.assay.id if not already known

A list object with the following named components

`assay.desc`	A short description of the assay
`assay.comments`	A `list` of comments for the assay
`types`	A `matrix` with 3 columns. The first column is the name of the assay specific columns. The second column contains the descriptions of each assay specific column. The final column lists the units for each of the assay specific columns. In case an assay column is unitless, the value of the unit for that column is `NA`