\name{isValidKey} \alias{isValidKey} \alias{allValidKeys} \title{Get or verify valid IDs for a package.} \description{ These functions either verify that a list of IDs are primary and valid IDs for a package, or else return all the valid primary IDs from a package } \usage{ isValidKey(ids, pkg) allValidKeys(pkg) } \arguments{ \item{ids}{A character vector containing IDs that you wish to validate.} \item{pkg}{The package name of the chip for which we wish to validate IDs.} } \details{ Every package has some kind of ID that is central to that package. For chip-based packages this will be some kind of probe, and for the organism based packages it will be something else (usually an entrez gene ID). isValidKey takes a list of IDs and tests to see whether or not they are present (valid) in a particular package. allValidKeys simply returns all the valid primary IDs for a package. } \value{ \code{isValidKey} returns a vector of TRUE or FALSE values corresponding to whether or not the ID is valid. \code{allValidKeys} returns a vector of all the valid primary IDs. } \author{Marc Carlson} \seealso{\code{\link{updateSymbolsToValidKeys}}} \examples{ \dontrun{ ## 2 bad IDs and a 3rd that will be valid ids <- c("15S_rRNA_2","21S_rRNA_4","15S_rRNA") isValidKey(ids, "org.Sc.sgd") ## 2 good IDs and a 3rd that will not be valid ids <- c("5600","7531", "altSymbol") isValidKey(ids, "org.Hs.eg") ## Get all the valid primary id from org.Hs.eg.db allValidKeys("org.Hs.eg") } } \keyword{manip}