get_clinical_data: Retrieve Clinical Information from a TCGA Study

In TCGAretriever: Retrieve Genomic and Clinical Data from CBioPortal Including TCGA Data

Retrieve Clinical Information from a TCGA Study

Description

Retrieve Information about the Patients included in a TCGA Study of Interest. Each patient is associates with a case_id. Each case_id is accompained by a set of clinical information that may include sex, age, therapeutic regimen, Tumor Staging, vital status and others. NA are allowed.

Usage

get_clinical_data(case_id = "blca_tcga_all")

Arguments

case_id

string corresponding to the case_list identifier of a specific list of cases of interest

Value

data.frame including one row per patient/case/sample

Author(s)

Damiano Fantini, [e-mail]

References

https://www.data-pulse.com/dev_site/TCGAretriever/

Examples

clinic_data <- get_clinical_data("blca_tcga_all")
clinic_data

TCGAretriever documentation built on July 26, 2023, 5:51 p.m.