searchGene: Search a "gene" contained in a character vector

In ProbeAnnotator: Faste Gene Annotation in R

Description

This function offers the possibility to search genes (character pattern) contained in a character vector separted by a given separator (semi-colon by default).

Usage

searchGene(x, gene, sep = ";", type = "logical")

Arguments

x	A character vector.
gene	A character vector, the gene (character pattern) of interest.
sep	A character vector, the separator between genes (by default, sep=";").
type	A character indicating the type of values returned by the function. By default the function return a logical vector (type="logical"). The type "numeric" and "value" return position and value respectively.

Value

The functiuon returns a vector of logical (type="logical"), numeric (type="numeric") or character (type="value") depending of the selected type.

Author(s)

Pierre Bady

Examples

{
genelist <-c("MGMT","MGMT;MGMT","MGMT;EGFR","HOXA1;EGFR;HOXA2","EGFR;MGMT",NA)
searchGene(genelist,"EGFR",sep=";",type="logical")
searchGene(genelist,"EGFR",sep=";",type="numeric")
searchGene(genelist,"EGFR",sep=";",type="value")
}

ProbeAnnotator documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:49 p.m.