getCategoryTerms {GeneAnswers} | R Documentation

## Mapping Category IDs to Terms

### Description

Function to map category IDs to category terms.

### Usage

    getCategoryTerms(catIDs, catType, strict = FALSE, missing=c('name', 'keep', 'remove'), nameLength='all', addID=FALSE)

### Arguments

`catIDs` | a character vector containing category IDs
`catType` | type of category
`strict` | logic value to stop conversion if NA is introduced.
`missing` | type of handling NA mapping.
`nameLength` | show how many first letters for long term names, 'all' for full name
`addID` | logic, add term IDs following term names or not

### Details

The current version only supports 'GO', 'DOLITE', 'KEGG', 'REACTOME.PATH' and 'CABIO.PATH'. There are three types of parameters for variable 'missing'. 'name' means the NA mapping values are replaced by their names. 'keep' means all of NA values are kept. 'remove' means all of NA values are removed.

### Value

return category terms of given category IDs.

### Author(s)

Gang Feng, Pan Du and Simon Lin

### References

Feng, G., Du, P., Krett, N., Tessel, M., Rosen, S., Kibbe, W.A. and Lin, S.M., 'A collection of bioconductor methods to visualize gene-list annotations', BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:10

### Examples

    getCategoryTerms(c("04640", "05221", "05215"), catType='KEGG')

[Package GeneAnswers version 2.28.0 Index]