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Reads pathway gene data from the package's built-in Excel database and returns a two-column data frame with gene symbols and their coefficients for the requested species.

Usage

LoadPathway(Sheet.name, species = "human")

Arguments

Sheet.name

A character string specifying the sheet name (e.g. "Hypoxia_6hr", "HIPPO_heat"). Use ListPathway() to see available sheets.

species

A character string specifying the species: either "human" or "mouse". Determines which gene symbol column is used. Default "human".

Value

A data frame with two columns:

Gene_Symbol

Gene symbols for the requested species.

Coefficient

Numeric pathway coefficients.

Rows with NA gene symbols are dropped.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
LoadPathway("Hypoxia_6hr", "human")
LoadPathway("HIPPO_heat", "mouse")
} # }