gc_request: Request a GWAS Catalog REST API endpoint
In gwasrapidd: 'REST' 'API' Client for the 'NHGRI'-'EBI' 'GWAS' Catalog

gc_request

R Documentation

Request a GWAS Catalog REST API endpoint

Performs a GET request on the specified resource_url.

gc_request(
  resource_url = "/",
  base_url = gwas_rest_api_base_url,
  verbose = FALSE,
  warnings = TRUE,
  flatten = FALSE
)

`resource_url`	Endpoint URL. The endpoint is internally appended to the `base_url`. It should start with a forward slash (`/`).
`base_url`	The GWAS REST API base URL (one should not need to change its default value).
`verbose`	Whether to be chatty.
`warnings`	Whether to print warnings.
`flatten`	Whether to flatten out the list returned by `jsonlite::fromJSON`.

A list four named elements:

url: The URL endpoint.
response_code: HTTP status code.
status: A string describing the status of the response obtained. It is "OK" if everything went OK or some other string describing the problem otherwise.
content: The parsed JSON as a nested list, as returned by jsonlite::fromJSON.