saveResults: Save miRNA translation results

Description

This function saves the data frame returned from translateMiRNAName inclusive the attribute 'description'.

Usage

saveResults(this, df, outputFilename, outputPath, sep = "\t",
  quote = FALSE, verbose = FALSE, ...)
## S3 method for class 'MiRNANameConverter,data.frame':
saveResults(this, df, outputFilename,
  outputPath, sep = "\\t", quote = FALSE, verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

this

Object of class 'MiRNANameConverter'

A data.frame with translated results

outputFilename

A filename for the output file, such as 'filename.txt'

outputPath

A file path (character string) to the target directory

sep

Separator

quote

If all data values shall be surrounded by ('"')

verbose

Boolean to either show more (TRUE) or less information (FALSE)

...

Arguments that can be passed on to write.table

Methods (by class)

this = MiRNANameConverter,df = data.frame: Method for saving translation results

Details

This function saves a data frame that has been returned by translateMiRNAName. The attribute 'description' of the data frame will be stored as well.

Examples

Run this code

nc = MiRNANameConverter(); # Instance of class 'MiRNANameConverter'
res = translateMiRNAName(nc, miRNAs = c("hsa-miR-140", "hsa-miR-125a"),
                           versions = c(15, 16, 20, 21))
# Save translation results
saveResults(nc, res)