Attributes in BioMart databases are grouped together in attribute pages. The attributePages function gives a summary of the attribute categories and groups present in the BioMart. These page names can be used to display only a subset of the available attributes in the listAttributes function.
Usage
attributePages(mart)
Arguments
mart
object of class Mart, created with the useMart function.
Author(s)
Steffen Durinck
Examples
if(interactive()){
mart = useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
attributeSummary(mart)
}
Results
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> library(biomaRt)
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_BC/result/biomaRt/attributePages.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: attributePages
> ### Title: Gives a summary of the attribute pages
> ### Aliases: attributePages
> ### Keywords: methods
>
> ### ** Examples
>
>
> #if(interactive()){
> mart = useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
> attributeSummary(mart)
Error: could not find function "attributeSummary"
Execution halted