R: Make Gene Set Indices from Symbols

symbols2indices {limma}

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Make Gene Set Indices from Symbols

Make a list of gene sets symbols into a list of gene sets indices used to create input for romer function.

symbols2indices(gmtl.official, symbol)

`gmtl.official`	list of gene sets containing official gene symbols. The gene sets can be the ones from the molecular signatures database in Broad Institute.
`symbol`	vector of symbols for the probesets.

This function takes a list of official gene sets symbols and returns a list of indices of them according to the vector symbol.

list of indices.

Gordon Smyth and Yifang Hu