get450K: get450K to download HM40K DNA methylation data for certain...

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/FetchTCGA.R

Description

get450K to download HM40K DNA methylation data for certain cancer types from TCGA website. @description get450K is a function to download latest version of HM450K DNA methylation for all samples of certain cancer types from GDC website.

Usage

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get450K(disease, basedir="./Data",filter=0.2, genome = "hg38")

Arguments

disease

A character specifies the disease to download from TCGA such as BLCA

basedir

A path. Shows where the data will be stored.

filter

For each probe, the percentage of NA among the all the samples should smaller than filter.

genome

Data aligned against which genome of reference. Options: "hg19", "hg38" (default)

Value

Download all DNA methylation from HM450K level 3 data for the specified disease.


ELMER documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 4:59 p.m.