getArrayDesign            package:MAGEML            R Documentation

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

     This function parses the ArrayDesign package and returns an
     arrayDesign object.

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

     getArrayDesign(file = "", datadir = "")

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

    file: XML document containing the DesignElement package.

 datadir: The directory where XML file resides.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     List of three lists, called "location", "feature" and "zone".

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

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

_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:

     arrayDesign

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

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

