Annotation: The Annotation class

Description Usage Arguments Fields and Methods Author(s)

Description

Package:
Class Annotation

Object
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Directly known subclasses:
AnnotationAffx, AnnotationEnsembl, AnnotationEnsemblCsv, AnnotationEnvision, AnnotationNetAffx

public abstract static class Annotation
extends Object

This is the base annotation class from which the concrete classes like AnnotationAffx, AnnotationEnvision etc. are derived

Usage

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Annotation(cacheFolderName="", primaryColumn="From", secondaryColumn="To", swap=FALSE, species="Homo sapiens", verbose=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

cacheFolderName

The path to a service cashing directory for a given Annotation object. The path is relative to the caching subsystem root directory. Default is 'Affymetrix'

primaryColumn

Primary column to be retrieved from a data frame obtained for a given service when getIdMap() on a given annotation object is called. Default is 'From'.

secondaryColumn

Secondary column(s) to be retrieved from a data frame obtained for a given service when getIdMap on a given annotation object is called. Default is 'To'.

swap

A logical indicating if primary and secondary column(s) need to be swapped at the end of the IdMap retrieval during the getIdMap() call.Default is FALSE.

species

A character vector or NA indicating if filtering of the results on a particular set of species should be performed if a given service provides the species information. If NA, no filtering is performed. Default is "Homo sapiens".

verbose

if TRUE enables diagnostic messages. Default is FALSE.

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Additional parameters

Fields and Methods

Methods:

getDataFrame Get the entire data set available from a particular service in a form of a data frame.
getFolderName Get caching folder name for a given Annotation object.
getIdMap Get an IdMap object using the data retrieved by a particular service represented by annotation object.
getServiceRoot Get a root directory for a particular annotation object.
setOptions Set the parameters for an annotation object.

Methods inherited from Object:
$, $<-, [[, [[<-, as.character, attach, attachLocally, clearCache, clone, detach, equals, extend, finalize, gc, getEnvironment, getFields, getInstantiationTime, getStaticInstance, hasField, hashCode, ll, load, objectSize, print, registerFinalizer, save

Author(s)

Alex Lisovich, Roger Day


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