fetch_and_clean_raw_ENCODE_tables: Fetches and preprocess the raw metadata tables from ENCODE.

In ArnaudDroitLab/ENCODExplorerData: A compilation of ENCODE metadata

Description

Fetches and preprocess the raw metadata tables from ENCODE.

Usage

fetch_and_clean_raw_ENCODE_tables(
  cache_filename = "tables.RDA",
  types = get_encode_types(),
  overwrite = FALSE,
  precache = NULL
)

Arguments

cache_filename	A file name for caching the selected tables into.
types	The names of the tables to extract using the ENCODE rest api.
overwrite	If cache_filename already exists, should it be overwritten? Default: FALSE.
precache	A path to cache the raw metadata as returned by ENCODE and parsed using jsonlite. If NULL, no caching is performed. Default: FALSE.

Value

A list with all selected tables from ENCODE.

Examples

fetch_and_clean_raw_ENCODE_tables(cache_filename = "platform.RDA", types = "platform")
file.remove("platform.RDA")
    

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