tool.read {Mergeomics} | R Documentation

## Read a data frame from a file

### Description

`tool.read` reads contents of given input file.

### Usage

    tool.read(file, vars = NULL)

### Arguments

`file` | file name to be read
`vars` | if we want to read particular attributes (columns) from the input file, we need to specify names of these attributes within list `vars` (attribute names can be e.g. MODULE, GENE, LOCUS, etc.)

### Details

All lines with NAs are excluded.

### Value

`dat` | data frame including content of the given file. If `vars` is specified, only the listed columns inside the `vars` list will be returned.

### Author(s)

Ville-Petteri Makinen

### Examples

    ## read the network file as an example:
    net.info <- tool.read(system.file("extdata","network.mouseliver.mouse.txt",
    package="Mergeomics"))
    dim(net.info)
    names(net.info)

[Package Mergeomics version 1.20.0 Index]