getBiocViews {biocViews} | R Documentation |
Given the URL to a CRAN-style package repository containing a
VIEWS
file at the top-level and a graph-class
object
representing a DAG of views, this function returns a list of
BiocView-class
objects.
getBiocViews(reposUrl, vocab, defaultView, local = FALSE)
reposUrl |
URL for a CRAN-style repository that hosts a
VIEWS file at the top-level. |
vocab |
A graph-class object representing
the ontologyof views. This graph should be a directed acyclic graph
(DAG). |
defaultView |
A string giving the term to use for packages that
do not list a term of their own via the biocViews field in the
‘DESCRIPTION’ file. |
local |
logical indicating whether to assume a local package
repository. The default is FALSE in which case absolute links
to package detail pages are created. |
A list of BiocView-class
objects. The names of the list give
the name of the corresponding view.
Seth Falcon
data(biocViewsVocab) reposPath <- system.file("doc", package="biocViews") reposUrl <- paste("file://", reposPath, sep="") biocViews <- getBiocViews(reposUrl, biocViewsVocab, "NoViewProvided") print(biocViews[1:2])