filterType              package:biomaRt              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Displays the type of the filer given a filter name.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     filterType(filter,mart)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  filter: A valid filter name. Valid filters are given by the
          listFilters function

    mart: object of class Mart, created using the useMart function

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Steffen Durinck, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~steffen

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     if(interactive()){
     mart = useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
     filterType("chromosome_name", mart)
     }

