Collect information about the package annotation DB

Description

Some convenience functions for getting a connection object to (or collecting information about) the package annotation DB.

Usage

  lumiRatIDMapping_dbconn()
  lumiRatIDMapping_dbfile()
  lumiRatIDMapping_dbInfo()

Details

lumiRatIDMapping_dbconn returns a connection object to the package annotation DB. IMPORTANT: Don't call dbDisconnect on the connection object returned by lumiRatIDMapping_dbconn or you will break all the AnnDbObj objects defined in this package!

lumiRatIDMapping_dbfile returns the path (character string) to the package annotation DB (this is an SQLite file).

lumiRatIDMapping_dbInfo prints other information about the package annotation DB.

Value

lumiRatIDMapping_dbconn: a DBIConnection object representing an open connection to the package annotation DB.
lumiRatIDMapping_dbfile: a character string with the path to the package annotation DB.
lumiRatIDMapping_dbInfo: none (invisible NULL).

See Also

dbConnect

Examples

  ## Show the database information (meta data)
  lumiRatIDMapping_dbInfo()  

  ## List the tables included in the database
  conn <- lumiRatIDMapping_dbconn()
  dbListTables(conn)