some fields of interest are lists, and grep per se should not be used – this function checks and uses grep within vapply when appropriate — fastGrep • ontoProc

some fields of interest are lists, and grep per se should not be used – this function checks and uses grep within vapply when appropriate

Usage

fastGrep(patt, onto, field, ...)

Arguments

patt: a regular expression whose presence in field should be checked
onto: an ontologyIndex instance
field: the ontologyIndex component to be searched
...: passed to grep

Value

logical vector indicating vector or list elements where a match is found

Examples

cheb = getOnto("chebi_lite")
#> loading from cache
ind = fastGrep("tanespimycin", cheb, "name")
cheb$name[ind]
#>    CHEBI:64153 
#> "tanespimycin"