limma (version 3.28.14)

uniquegenelist: Eliminate Duplicate Names from the Gene List

Description

Eliminate duplicate names from the gene list. The new list is shorter than the full list by a factor of ndups.

Usage

uniquegenelist(genelist,ndups=2,spacing=1)

Arguments

genelist

vector of gene names

ndups

number of duplicate spots. The number of rows of genelist must be divisible by ndups.

spacing

the spacing between duplicate names in genelist

Value

A vector of length length(genelist)/ndups containing each gene name once only.

See Also

unwrapdups

Examples

genelist <- c("A","A","B","B","C","C","D","D")
uniquegenelist(genelist,ndups=2)
genelist <- c("A","B","A","B","C","D","C","D")
uniquegenelist(genelist,ndups=2,spacing=2)