getDesignElement {MAGEML} | R Documentation

## Get designElement object

### Description

This function parses the DesignElement package and returns a designElement object

### Usage

    getDesignElement(file = "", datadir = ".")

### Arguments

`file` | XML document containing the DesignElement package.
`datadir` | The directory where XML file resides.

### Value

returns a designElement object.

### Author(s)

Joke Allemeersch, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~jallemee
Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck.

### References

Spellman PT, Miller M, Stewart J, Troup C, Sarkans U, Chervitz S, Bernhart D, Sherlock G, Ball C, Lepage M, Swiatek M, Marks WL, Goncalves J, Markel S, Iordan D, Shojatalab M, Pizarro A, White J, Hubley R, Deutsch E, Senger M, Aronow BJ, Robinson A, Bassett D, Stoeckert CJ Jr and Brazma A. Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML). Genome Biol. 2002 Aug 23;3(9):RESEARCH0046.

### See Also

designElement

### Examples

    data <- system.file("data", package="MAGEML")
    getDesignElement(file="Iron.xml",datadir=data)

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