AnnInfo              package:AnnBuilder              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This is a tab separated file with five coulumns for descriptive
     information that are needed to create the man pages of a data
     package to be built.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The first column of the file is the name of an annotation element
     (e. g. ACCNUM), the second a short description of the name that
     will be used for the description of the element in an XML file to
     be created, the third a long description of the name that will be
     used for the man page of the data environment for the element of
     the data package to be built, the fourth a short hand name of the
     source (e. g. ll for LocusLink), and the fifth a boolean that is
     TRUE if the annotation element is for a probe or FALSE otherwise.

_N_o_t_e:

     The functions are part of the Bioconductor project at Dana-Farber
     Cancer Institute to provide BioInformatics functionalities through
     R

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jianhua Zhang

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     fileName <- file.path(.path.package("AnnBuilder"), "data",
     "AnnInfo.txt")
     read.table(fileName, sep = "\t", header = FALSE, as.is = TRUE)