get_name {ABAEnrichment} | R Documentation

## Get the full name of a brain region given structure IDs

### Description

Returns the full name of brain regions given the structure IDs, e.g. 'Allen:10657' as used throughout the ABAEnrichment package. The full name is composed of an acronym and the name as used by the Allen Brain Atlas project [1-2].

### Usage

        get_name(structure_ids)

### Arguments

`structure_ids` | a vector of brain structure IDs, e.g. c('Allen:10657','Allen:10173') or c(10657,10173)

### Value

vector of the full names of the brain structures; composed of acronym, underscore and name.

### Note

The acronym is added because the names alone are not unique.

### Author(s)

Steffi Grote

### References

[1] Allen Institute for Brain Science. Allen Human Brain Atlas. Available from: http://human.brain-map.org/
[2] Allen Institute for Brain Science. BrainSpan Atlas of the Developing Human Brain. Available from: http://brainspan.org/

### See Also

`get_id`
`get_sampled_substructures`
`get_superstructures`

### Examples

    ## get the full names of the brain structures 'Allen:10657' and 'Allen:10225'
    get_name(c('Allen:10657','Allen:10225'))

[Package ABAEnrichment version 1.12.0 Index]