find_parents.RdThe Allen Brain Atlas is organized with a tree structure, where smaller brain areas (e.g. nuclei) are grouped into larger brain areas. This function allows you to find the parent of a sub-brain area of choice. Returns only one level up in the tree structure.
find_parents(atlas, child)
| atlas | Data frame with (at least) two character variables: one for the parents (parent_acronym), and one for the children (acronym). |
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| child | Acronym of the child brain area. It must be a character vector of length 1. |