con4Win              package:SAGElyzer              R Documentation

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

     These functions make connections to or query against a database.

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

     con4Win(args)
     con4Unix(args)
     makeConnection(args)
     executeQuery(sqlStat, conn, noReturn = FALSE)
     query4Unix(sqlStat, conn, noReturn = FALSE)
     closeConn(conn)
     tableExists(conn, tableName)

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

    args: 'args' a list of arguments that will be used for database
          connection and query

 sqlStat: 'sqlStat' a character string for the SQL statement to be sent
          to the database server

    conn: 'conn' a connection object

noReturn: 'noReturn' a boolean to indicate whether a query sent to the
          database server will return any value

tableName: 'tableName' a character string for the name of a database
          table

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     'con4Win' makes a connection to a database for windows.

     'con4Unix' makes a connection to a database for unix.

     'makeConnection' direct the effort of making a database connection
     depending on the platform.

     'executeQuery' executes a SQL query statement against a database.
     'query4Unix' executes a SQL query statement against a database
     under unix.

     'closeConn' closes a connection to a database.

     'tableExists' checks to see if a given table exists in the
     database.

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

     'con4Win' returns an ODBC connection object.

     'con4Unix' returns an Rdbi connection object.

     'makeConnection' returns a connection object.

     'executeQuery' returns the values for a query.

     'query4Unix' returns the results of a query for unix.

     'tableExists' returns TRUE if a given table exists and FALSE
     otherwise.

_N_o_t_e:

     The functions are part of the Bioconductor project at Dana-Farber
     Cancer Institute to provide Bioinformatics functionalities through
     R

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

     Jianhua Zhang

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'SAGELyzer', 'mergeSAGE'

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

     # No examples are given as database support will be required

