isMicroarrayAssay {Risa}R Documentation

Determines if an assay is microarray-based or not.

Description

Retrieves a boolean value indicating wether the assay filename given as parameter corresponds to a microarray-based assay or not.

Usage

isMicroarrayAssay(isa, assay.filename)

Arguments

isa

An object of the ISAtab-class.

assay.filename

A string indicating the name of an assay file. It must correspond to a microarray-based assay for the function to return a valid value.

Value

Retrieves a boolean value.

Author(s)

Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran

See Also

getMIAMEMetadata

Examples

data.dir <- system.file("extdata", package="Risa")
isazip <- system.file("extdata","ARMSTRONG-S-3-metadata.zip", package="Risa")
isa <- readISAtab(zipfile = isazip, path = file.path(data.dir,"ARMSTRONG_ISA"), verbose =TRUE)
    
assay.filename <- isa@assay.filenames[[1]]
isMicroarrayAssay(isa, assay.filename)

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