convertAlleleToVariable {midasHLA} | R Documentation

## Convert allele numbers to additional variables

### Description

`convertAlleleToVariable` converts input HLA allele numbers to additional variables based on the supplied dictionary.

### Usage

    convertAlleleToVariable(allele, dictionary)

### Arguments

`allele` | Character vector with HLA allele numbers.
`dictionary` | Path to file containing HLA allele dictionary or a data frame.

### Details

`dictionary` file should be a tsv format with header and two columns. First column should hold allele numbers, second additional variables (eg. expression level).

Type of the returned vector depends on the type of the additional variable.

### Value

Vector containing HLA allele numbers converted to additional variables according to `dictionary`.

### Examples

    dictionary <- system.file("extdata", "Match_allele_HLA_supertype.txt", package = "midasHLA")
    convertAlleleToVariable(c("A*01:01", "A*02:01"), dictionary = dictionary)

[Package midasHLA version 1.2.0 Index]