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rols

An R interface to the Ontology Lookup Service

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 3.8.2

The rols package is an interface to the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) to access and query hundred of ontolgies directly from R.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.rols

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("rols")

Details

MaintainerLaurent Gatto <laurent.gatto@uclouvain.be>
AuthorLaurent Gatto [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1520-2268>), Tiage Chedraoui Silva [ctb], Andrew Clugston [ctb]
LicenseGPL-2
URLhttp://lgatto.github.io/rols/
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/lgatto/rols/issues
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAnnotation, GO, ImmunoOncology, MassSpectrometry, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/rols/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("rols"):

Laurent Gatto. rols: An R interface to the Ontology Lookup Service. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.rols, R package version 3.8.2, https://bioconductor.org/packages/rols.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packagerols_3.8.2.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)rols_3.8.2.zip
macOS binary (arm64)rols_3.8.2.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)rols_3.8.2.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: methods, R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: httr2, jsonlite, utils, Biobase

Suggests: GO.db, knitr (>= 1.1.0), BiocStyle (>= 2.5.19), testthat, lubridate, DT, rmarkdown

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): OmicsMLRepoR

Suggests Me (1): RforProteomics