[BioC] How to retrieve environment variables from custom build annotation packages

[Wolfgang Huber]

Dear Chanchal,

try

env = get(paste("ipihs324","ENTREZID",sep=""))
l = mget("IPI00000948",env,ifnotfound=list("FALSE"))
? get

  Best wishes
  Wolfgang


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Wolfgang Huber  EBI/EMBL  Cambridge UK  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber

> Dear Bioconductor Developers and Users,
> 
>    I have a custom annotation package which I created using "AnnBuilder"
> package. The package named "ipihs324" has annotation for IPI identifiers
> and contains mappings to Entrez ids in the environment variable
> ipihs324ENTREZID.
> 
> Now when I provide this environment directly like :
> l <- mget("IPI00000948",ipihs324ENTREZID,ifnotfound=list("FALSE"))
> 
> then I get result.
> 
>> l
> $IPI00000948
> [1] 26608
> 
> But if I try as following:
>> env<-paste("ipihs324","ENTREZID",sep="")
> 
>> l <- mget("IPI00000948",env,ifnotfound=list("FALSE"))
> 
> I get this error:
> ##########################
> Error in mget("IPI00000948", env, ifnotfound = list("FALSE")) : 
>   second argument must be an environment
> ##########################
> 
> As I want to write a generic code for loading any data package and then
> retrieve its environment for Entrez ids mappings, so I need to do it
> this second way. Can anyone suggest how to convert the string type to an
> environment type? I have tried as.environment() but that too doesn't
> work. Any suggestions and comments will be very helpful. 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Chanchal 
> ===============================
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> Dept. of Proteomics and Signal Transduction
> Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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