iterative_select: Iteratively query a database for matches to a query vector.

In datarail/genebabel: Convert Gene Symbols and Genes

Description

'iterative_select()' returns a tibble with all entries of the database that match the query vector in any of the selected columns.

Usage

iterative_select(query, database, match_cols, return_all = FALSE)

Arguments

query	A character vector.
database	A data.frame or tibble A database to be queried. See [databases()] for a list of included databases.
match_cols	A character vector. The columns in the data to look for matches with the query. In order of preference, if matches to a column are found, matches to subsequent columns are not reported by default, unless return_all is 'TRUE'.
return_all	A logical indicating whether matches to subsequent columns, after a match has already been found, should also be returned.

Value

A tibble containing all rows of the dataframe that matched a query. The new column 'match__' contains the name of the column that matched the query for this row.

Examples

iterative_select(c("FLG", "SGK2"),
                 hgnc,
                 c("symbol", "alias_symbol", "prev_symbol"))

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