R: Eliminate Duplicate Names from the Gene List

uniquegenelist {limma}

R Documentation

Eliminate Duplicate Names from the Gene List

Description

Eliminate duplicate names from the gene list. The new list is shorter than the full list by a factor of ndups.

Usage

uniquegenelist(genelist,ndups=2,spacing=1)

Arguments

`genelist`	vector of gene names
`ndups`	number of duplicate spots. The number of rows of `genelist` must be divisible by `ndups`.
`spacing`	the spacing between duplicate names in `genelist`

Value

A vector of length length(genelist)/ndups containing each gene name once only.

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

Examples

genelist <- c("A","A","B","B","C","C","D","D")
uniquegenelist(genelist,ndups=2)
genelist <- c("A","B","A","B","C","D","C","D")
uniquegenelist(genelist,ndups=2,spacing=2)

[Package limma version 3.34.5 Index]