get_descendants: Get set of terms containing all descendants of terms in a...

In ontologyIndex: Reading Ontologies into R

Get set of terms containing all descendants of terms in a given set

Description

Get set of terms containing all descendants of terms in a given set

Usage

get_descendants(ontology, roots, exclude_roots = FALSE)

Arguments

ontology	ontology_index object.
roots	Character vector of IDs for terms with respect to which descendants are to be defined.
exclude_roots	Boolean determining whether to remove the given roots terms from the result.

Value

Character vector of terms

See Also

link{get_ancestors}

Examples

data(hpo)
get_descendants(hpo, roots="HP:0001873")

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