getPlatformData {celsius}R Documentation

lists all the platforms available on a Celsius server

Description

Useful to know which affy platforms are available. Presents a table with 2 cols: 1) platform name, and 2) number of cel files available

Usage

 platformTable = getPlatformData( celsiusObject );

Arguments

celsiusObject Providea celsius server object with approriate URLs

Value

Returns a two-column table. Column 1 contains the supported platforms, Column 2 contains the number of samples representing said platform.

Author(s)

Marc Carlson

Examples

#make a celsius instance
celsius = new("celsiusServer",
  celsiusUrl = "http://celsius.genomics.ctrl.ucla.edu" );

#get platform availability information
platformTable = getPlatformData( celsius );

[Package celsius version 1.0.7 Index]