galaxy_get_tool_id: Retrieve Galaxy tool IDs by name

In GalaxyR: 'Galaxy' API Implementation

Retrieve Galaxy tool IDs by name

Description

Retrieve Galaxy tool IDs by name

Usage

galaxy_get_tool_id(
  name,
  tools = NULL,
  ignore_case = TRUE,
  galaxy_url = "https://usegalaxy.eu",
  panel_id = NULL
)

Arguments

name	Character string to search for in tool names.
tools	Optional list as returned by galaxy_list_tools. If NULL, the function will fetch tools on the fly by calling galaxy_list_tools.
ignore_case	Logical. Whether matching should ignore case. Default: TRUE.
galaxy_url	Character. Base URL of the Galaxy instance (for example "https://usegalaxy.eu"). If the environment variable GALAXY_URL is set, it takes precedence.
panel_id	Optional character. Passed through to galaxy_list_tools when tools is NULL so you can restrict the search to a panel/section.

Value

Character vector of matching tool IDs in decreasing order (usually highest version first). Returns character(0) if no tools match.

Examples

# Fetch the full tool list once, then lookup
tools <- galaxy_list_tools()
galaxy_get_tool_id("FastQC", tools = tools)

# Or let the helper fetch on demand
galaxy_get_tool_id("FastQC")

# Exact, case-sensitive match inside a specific panel
galaxy_get_tool_id("Concatenate datasets",
ignore_case = FALSE, panel_id = "Text Manipulation")

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