attributeSummary {biomaRt}R Documentation

Gives a summary of the attributes groups and categories

Description

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.

Usage

attributeSummary(mart)

Arguments

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

Author(s)

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

Examples


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

[Package biomaRt version 1.16.0 Index]