getQTypeDescription         package:RMAGEML         R Documentation

_R_e_t_r_i_e_v_e_s _d_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n _o_f _a _Q_u_a_n_t_i_t_a_t_i_o_n_T_y_p_e

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function retrieves the description of a QuantitationType.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getQTypeDescription( mageOM = NULL, QTypeID = "" )

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  mageOM: R reference to MAGE Object Model

 QTypeID: ID of QuantitationType

_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:

     'importMAGEOM','getQuantitationTypes'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data <- system.file( "MAGEMLdata", package = "RMAGEML" )
     mageom <- importMAGEOM( directory = data )
     QTypes <- getQuantitationTypes( mageOM = mageom )
     getQTypeDescription( mageOM = mageom , QTypeID = QTypes[1] )

