getURL: Retrieve file from URL.

In chroGPS: chroGPS2: Generation, visualization and differential analysis of epigenome maps

Description

A function that can be used to retrieve any file of interest from the internet, in our case, modEncode binding site information GFF files into the working directory. See also help for function gff2RDList.

Usage

getURL(urls, filenames, extension='.gff3', method='internal') 

Arguments

urls	Character vector with one or more target URLs to download.
filenames	Character vector with the filename for each URL target.
extension	If desired, an extension to append to filenames.
method	Either 'internal' to use the system's default or 'wget' if it is installed.

Value

Message indicating the path to downloaded file(s).

Examples

# Not run
#getURL('http://www.google.com/index.html','index','.html')

Example output

Loading required package: GenomicRanges
Loading required package: stats4
Loading required package: BiocGenerics
Loading required package: parallel

Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:parallel':

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ,
    clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
    parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, append,
    as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colMeans, colSums, colnames,
    dirname, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl,
    intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, lengths, mapply, match, mget,
    order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, rank, rbind,
    rowMeans, rowSums, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply,
    union, unique, unsplit, which, which.max, which.min

Loading required package: S4Vectors

Attaching package: 'S4Vectors'

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    expand.grid

Loading required package: IRanges
Loading required package: GenomeInfoDb
Loading required package: Biobase
Welcome to Bioconductor

    Vignettes contain introductory material; view with
    'browseVignettes()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
    'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.

Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: changepoint
Loading required package: zoo

Attaching package: 'zoo'

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    as.Date, as.Date.numeric

Successfully loaded changepoint package version 2.2.2
 NOTE: Predefined penalty values changed in version 2.2.  Previous penalty values with a postfix 1 i.e. SIC1 are now without i.e. SIC and previous penalties without a postfix i.e. SIC are now with a postfix 0 i.e. SIC0. See NEWS and help files for further details.

chroGPS documentation built on Oct. 31, 2019, 4:52 a.m.