locuslinkQuery {annotate} | R Documentation |
Given a search string, will query the Locuslink site and passes the returned page to the browser.
locuslinkQuery(query,...,lladdress="LocusLink/", browse=TRUE)
query |
The search query to use |
... |
The species to search on. Defaults to "Hs" - human. |
lladdress |
The subdirectory off of the NCBI site for LocusLink. |
browse |
If TRUE, will open the URL in a web browser |
A simple function which takes a search string and a set of species,
and will perform a locuslink query, returning the results to the
browser. Tips on creating good search strings, as well as current
species abbreviations can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/LocusLink/help.html
If browse
is TRUE, the user's web browser is directed to that URL.
The URL found is returned if browse
is FALSE.
Jeff Gentry
if( interactive() ) locuslinkQuery("abc","Hs","Mm")