filterGOByOntology {annotate} | R Documentation

## Filter GO terms by a specified GO ontology

### Description

Given a character vector containing GO identifiers, return a logical vector indicating which GO IDs are in the specified ontology (BP, CC, or MF).

### Usage

    filterGOByOntology(goids, ontology = c("BP", "CC", "MF"))

### Arguments

`goids` | a character vector of GO IDs
`ontology` | One of "BP", "CC", or "MF"

### Value

A logical vector with length equal to `goids`. A `TRUE` indicates that the corresponding GO ID in `goids` is a member of the ontology specified by `ontology`.

### Author(s)

Seth Falcon

### Examples

    haveGO <- suppressWarnings(require("GO.db"))
    if (haveGO) {
        ids <- c("GO:0001838", "GO:0001839")
        stopifnot(all(filterGOByOntology(ids, "BP")))
        stopifnot(!any(filterGOByOntology(ids, "MF")))
    } else cat("Sorry, this example requires the GO package\n")

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