parseTcgaDccArchiveName.character: Parses a TCGA DCC archive name

In HenrikBengtsson/aroma.tcga: Methods for accessing online The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data

Description

Parses a TCGA DCC archive name into its components.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
parseTcgaDccArchiveName(name, unlist=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

name	A character string.
unlist	A logical.
...	Not used.

Value

Returns a named character vector of length N=6.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

References

[1] The TCGA Network, TCGA Data Primer - Version 1.0, July 2008.

Examples

  name <- "broad.mit.edu_GBM.HG-U133_Plus_2.1.0.0"
  parts <- parseTcgaDccArchiveName(name)

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