get_descendants

Get set of terms containing all descendants of terms in a given set

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

get_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>exclude_roots</dt>
<dd>Boolean determining whether to remove the given <code>roots</code> terms from the result.</dd></dl>

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Get set of terms containing all descendants of terms in a given set — get_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>exclude_roots</dt>
<dd>Boolean determining whether to remove the given <code>roots</code> terms from the result.</dd>

</dl>

get_descendants: Get set of terms containing all descendants of terms in a given set

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