| GEO-class {AnnBuilder} | R Documentation |
The GEO web site contains data files represented by GEO accession numbers. Class GEO reads/downloads data files from the site if correct url and GEO accession numbers are provided
Objects can be created by calls of the form new("UG", ...).
A constructor (GEO) is available and should be used to instatiate
objects of this class
srcUrl:"character", from class
"pubRepo" - a character string for the url of a CGI script that
handles data requests, which is:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi? at the time of
writing
Class "pubRepo", directly.
signature(object = "GEO"): reads data from
GEO and then parses the data to a matrixThis class is part of the BioConductor project at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to provide Bioinformatics functionalities through R
Jianhua Zhang
Programming with data
if(interactive()){
geo <- GEO("http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?")
# The GEOAccNum may be invalid due to changes at GEO site
data <- readData(geo, GEOAccNum = "GPL16" )
}