annaffy (version 1.44.0)

aafSearchText: Search metadata annotation text

Description

Searches Bioconductor metadata annotation package text for specific strings or Perl compatible regular expressions.

Usage

aafSearchText(chip, colnames, text, logic = "OR")

Arguments

chip

name of the chip data package

colnames

character vector of metadata column names to search

text

character vector of strings/regular expressons to match

logic

type of logic to use, "AND" or "OR"

Value

A character vector of probe ids matching the search criteria.

See Also

aafSearchGO

Examples

if (require(hgu95av2.db)) {
    aafSearchText("hgu95av2.db", "Description", c("kinase", "interferon"))
#   aafSearchText("hgu95av2.db", c("Gene Ontology", "Pathway"), "ribosome")
}