isMicroarrayAssay {Risa} | R Documentation

## Determines if an assay is microarray-based or not.

### Description

Retrieves a boolean value indicating wether the assay filename given as parameter corresponds to a microarray-based assay or not.

### Usage

    isMicroarrayAssay(isa, assay.filename)

### Arguments

`isa` | An object of the `ISAtab-class`.
`assay.filename` | A string indicating the name of an assay file. It must correspond to a microarray-based assay for the function to return a valid value.

### Value

Retrieves a boolean value.

### Author(s)

Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran

### See Also

`getMIAMEMetadata`

### Examples

    data.dir <- system.file("extdata", package="Risa")
    isazip <- system.file("extdata","ARMSTRONG-S-3-metadata.zip", package="Risa")
    isa <- readISAtab(zipfile = isazip, path = file.path(data.dir,"ARMSTRONG_ISA"), verbose =TRUE)

    assay.filename <- isa@assay.filenames[[1]]
    isMicroarrayAssay(isa, assay.filename)

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