getDesignElement           package:MAGEML           R Documentation

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

     This function parses the DesignElement package and returns a
     designElement object

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

     getDesignElement(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:

     returns a designElement object.

_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:

     designElement

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

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

