Write a PGCA dictionary to a text file

Description

Write the dictionary to a text file using the write.table function. By default, a tab-separated file is written, but this can be changed by changing the arguments to write.table.

Usage

saveDict(dict, file = stop("`file` must be specified"), ...)

Arguments

Value

This function returns NULL invisibly.

See Also

pgcaDict to create the dictionary, and applyDict to apply the dictionary for translating data files.

Examples

# Build accession dictionary from all files in a directory
dict <- pgcaDict(
         system.file("extdata", package="pgca"),
         col.mapping=c(gene.symbol="Gene_Symbol")
)

# Save dictionary to a temporary file
dictOutFile <- tempfile()
saveDict(dict, file=dictOutFile)

# Change the separator string to a tab
dictOutFile <- tempfile()
saveDict(dict, file=dictOutFile, sep="\t")