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HGNChelper (version 0.3.4)

Handy Functions for Working with HGNC Gene Symbols and Affymetrix Probeset Identifiers

Description

Contains functions for identifying and correcting HGNC gene symbols which have been converted to date format by Excel, for reversibly converting between HGNC symbols and valid R names, identifying invalid HGNC symbols and correcting synonyms and outdated symbols which can be mapped to an official symbol.

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install.packages('HGNChelper')

Monthly Downloads

2,920

Version

0.3.4

License

GPL (>= 2.0)

Maintainer

Levi Waldron

Last Published

January 26th, 2017

Functions in HGNChelper (0.3.4)

rToSymbol

function to reverse the conversion made by symbolToR
symbolToR

function to *reversibly* convert HGNC gene symbols to valid R names.
checkGeneSymbols

function to identify outdated or Excel-mogrified gene symbols
hgnc.table

All current and withdrawn HGNC symbols.
affyToR

function to convert Affymetrix probeset identifiers to valid R names
rToAffy

function to convert the output of affyToR back to the original Affymetrix probeset identifiers.
findExcelGeneSymbols

function to identify Excel-mogrified gene symbols