attributeSummary           package:biomaRt           R Documentation

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

     Attributes in BioMart databases are grouped together in attribute
     groups and attribute groups can in their turn form a higher
     collection in an attribute category.  The attributeSummary
     function gives a summary of the attribute categories and groups
     present in the BioMart.  These group and category names can be
     used to display only a subset of the available attributes in the
     listAttributes function.  NOTE: pending on availability from the
     BioMart web service, groups are currently not available and this
     function will be replaced by the attributePages function to comply
     better with the BioMart naming scheme.

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

     attributeSummary(mart)

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

    mart: object of class Mart, created with the useMart function.

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

     Steffen Durinck, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~steffen

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

     if(interactive()){
     mart = useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
     attributeSummary(mart)
     }

