exclude_descendants

Exclude from set <code>terms</code>, any terms that are either in, or descend from one of, the set <code>roots</code>.

Functions for reading ontologies into R as lists and manipulating sets of ontological terms - 'ontologyX: A suite of R packages for working with ontological data', Greene et al 2017 <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw763>.

Daniel Greene

ontologyIndex

Reading Ontologies into R

exclude_descendants function

<dl><dt>ontology</dt>
<dd><code>ontology_index</code> object.</dd>
<dt>roots</dt>
<dd>Character vector of IDs for terms with respect to which descendants are to be defined.</dd>
<dt>terms</dt>
<dd>Character vector of ontological terms.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Exclude terms descending from any in a given set of root terms — exclude_descendants

<dl>

<dt>ontology</dt>
<dd><code>ontology_index</code> object.</dd>


<dt>roots</dt>
<dd>Character vector of IDs for terms with respect to which descendants are to be defined.</dd>


<dt>terms</dt>
<dd>Character vector of ontological terms.</dd>

</dl>

exclude_descendants: Exclude terms descending from any in a given set of root terms

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