seqinr (version 3.1-2)

getliststate: Asks for information about an ACNUC list of specified rank

Description

Reply gives the type of list, its name, the number of elements it contains, and, for sequence lists, says whether the list contains only parent seqs (locus=T).

Usage

getliststate(lrank, socket = autosocket())
gls(lrank, socket = autosocket())
gln(lrank, ...)

Arguments

lrank

the name of the ACNUC list to modify

socket

an object of class sockconn connecting to a remote ACNUC database (default is a socket to the last opened database).

...

arguments passed to getliststate

Value

• NA in case of problem and an warning is issued. When there is no problem a list with the following 4 components:
• type
  string. Type of ACNUC list (SQ, KW, SP)
• name
  string. ACNUC list name
• count
  numeric. Number of elements in ACNUC list
• locus
  logical. For ACNUC sequence lists TRUE means that the list contains only parent sequences. NA otherwise.
• gln is a shortcut for getliststate(lrank, ...)$name

References

http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/databases/acnuc.html

citation("seqinr")

See Also

choosebank, query, alr, glr

Examples

### Need internet connection
  choosebank("emblTP")
  query("mylist", "sp=felis catus et t=cds", virtual=TRUE)
  getliststate(glr("mylist")) # SQ, MYLIST, 603, FALSE
  gln(glr("mylist")) # MYLIST (upper case letters on server)
  closebank()