importMAGEOM             package:RMAGEML             R Documentation

_i_m_p_o_r_t _M_A_G_E_O_M _o_f _M_A_G_E_M_L _d_o_c_u_m_e_n_t_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function imports the MAGE Object Model MAGEML documents and
     creates a reference to this object.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     importMAGEOM(directory = ".")

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

directory: Directory which contains the MAGEML files that need to be
          imported

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

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

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     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.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'getGnames','getArrayLayout'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data<-system.file("MAGEMLdata", package="RMAGEML")
     #will return a reference to the MAGE Object Model.#
     importMAGEOM(directory=data)

