Opens an existing repository of pathway collections.

Description

The repository must have been created by createRepository. Provides an R object to interact with the repository.

Usage

openRepository(path)

Arguments

Details

This function only calls the repo_open function from the repo package on path. It is meant to allow users not to explicitly load the repo library, unless they want to access advanced features.

Value

An object of class repo that can be passed to gep2pep functions.

See Also

createRepository

Examples

db <- loadSamplePWS()
repo_path <- file.path(tempdir(), "gep2pepTemp")

rp <- createRepository(repo_path, db)
rp2 <- openRepository(repo_path)

## rp and rp2 point to the same data:
identical(rp$entries(), rp2$entries())
## > [1] TRUE

unlink(repo_path, TRUE)