organism {annotate} | R Documentation

## Convenience function for getting the organism from an object or package

### Description

The most basic organism method just takes a character string (which represents a particular annotation package) and returns the organism that said package is based upon.

### Usage

      organism(object)

### Arguments

`object` | a character string that names a package

### Value

The name of the organism used for this package or object

### Author(s)

Marc Carlson

### Examples

      require(hgu95av2.db)
      ## get the organism for this annotation package
      organism("hgu95av2")

      ## get the organism this object refers to
      ## (for a ChromLocation object)
      z <- buildChromLocation("hgu95av2")
      organism(z)

[Package annotate version 1.62.0 Index]