annotate (version 1.44.0)

organism: Convenience function for getting the organism from an object or package

Description

The most basic organism method just takes a character string (which represents a particular annotation package) and returns the organism that said package is based upon.

Usage

organism(object)

Arguments

object

a character string that names a package

Value

The name of the organism used for this package or object

Examples

  require(hgu95av2.db)
  ## get the organism for this annotation package
  organism("hgu95av2")

  ## get the organism this object refers to
  ## (for a ChromLocation object)
  z <- buildChromLocation("hgu95av2")
  organism(z)