getCategoryElements: Get all elements of a given category

In SNPediaR: Query data from SNPedia

Description

A function to get all page names of SNPedia tagged under the indicated category.

Usage

getCategoryElements(category, verbose = FALSE, includeTemplates = FALSE,
  limit, baseURL, format, query, continue)

Arguments

category	The category to be used. Just one at a time.
verbose	If TRUE some messages are provided.
includeTemplates	If TRUE page templates are kept in the output.
limit	The maximum number of items to be queried at a time.
baseURL	SNPedia boots URL.
format	Downloading format. Currently just JSON is available.
query	The query to be iterated.
continue	To be used in multi-page queries.

Details

A list of all available categories may be found at:

http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Special:Categories

Most used categories are:

• Is_a_medical_condition

• Is_a_medical_condition

• Is_a_medicine

• Is_a_topic

• Is_a_snp

• In_dbSNP

• Is_a_genotype

Some template pages are included in their corresponding category. By default those will be removed. Set includeTemplates to TRUE is you want to keep them.

Parameters other than category and verbose are not intended for standard users.

Value

A character vector containing the names of the pages under the required category.

See Also

getPages, extractTags

Examples

res <- getCategoryElements(category = "Is_a_medical_condition")
head(res)

## Not run: 
res <- getCategoryElements(category = "Is_a_snp")

## End(Not run)

SNPediaR documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:08 p.m.