getQTypeDescription         package:RMAGEML         R Documentation

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_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] )

