getBcViews             package:biocViews             R Documentation

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

     build a view-package association list

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

     getBcViews(packnames, vocab, root, interp=TRUE)

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

packnames: vector of package names; all named packages must be
          installed

   vocab: vocabulary graph 

    root: root of vocabulary 

  interp: logical: if TRUE, then associate each package with all terms
          that are hypernyms of those to which it is directly
          associated 

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

     extracts the biocViews tag value from each DESCRIPTION file,
     parses it (it must have x, y, z format, not hugging commas), and
     builds the view-package association list (one vector element per
     topic)

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

     a named list with one element per used topic and a vector of
     package names in each element

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

     Vince Carey <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>

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

     pl <- c("Biobase", "clusterStab", "limmaGUI", "GeneTS", "RBGL")
     data(sep05)
     getBcViews(pl,sep05)

