importMAGEOM             package:RMAGEML             R Documentation

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

     This function imports the MAGE Object Model MAGEML documents and
     creates a reference to this object.

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

     importMAGEOM(directory = ".")

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

directory: Directory which contains the MAGEML files that need to be
          imported

_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:

     'getGnames','getArrayLayout'

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

     data<-system.file("MAGEMLdata", package="RMAGEML")
     #will return a reference to the MAGE Object Model.#
     importMAGEOM(directory=data)

