espadon (version 1.11.3)

select.names: Regions of Interest (RoI) indices

Description

The select.names function allows you to select words from a vector of words, according to several criteria, eliminating spaces and case.

Usage

select.names(names, roi.name = NULL, roi.sname = NULL, roi.idx = NULL)

Value

Returns the indices of the elements of the word vector names

satisfying one or more of the following conditions:

• ASCII // TRANSLIT transcriptions, without spaces, of names and roi.name, are identical.

• ASCII // TRANSLIT transcriptions, without spaces of roi.sname are identical to part of ASCII // TRANSLIT transcriptions, without spaces of names.

• names indices belong to the index vector roi.idx.

Arguments

names

Words vector

roi.name

Vector of words to compare to names. By default roi.name = NULL. See Details

roi.sname

Vector of words or parts of words to compare. By default roi.sname = NULL. See Details

roi.idx

Index vector. By default roi.idx = NULL. See Details.

Details

If roi.name, roi.sname, and roi.idx are all NULL, then all RoI are selected.

Examples

# loading patient objects
names <- c ("Eye left", "EyeR", "OPTICAL nerve L", "opical nervR", "chiasma")

# RoI selection.
select.names (names = names, roi.name = c("eye left", "eye right"))
select.names (names = names, roi.sname = c("eye", "ner"))
select.names (names = names, roi.idx = 4:9)