download_dataset: Download Dataset

In DEIB-GECO/RGMQL: GenoMetric Query Language for R/Bioconductor

Download Dataset

Description

It donwloads private dataset as zip file from remote repository to local path, or donwloads and saves it into R environment as GRangesList, using the proper GMQL web service available on a remote server

Usage

download_dataset(url, datasetName, path = getwd())

download_as_GRangesList(url, datasetName)

Arguments

url	string url of server: It must contain the server address and base url; service name is added automatically
datasetName	string name of dataset to download
path	string local path folder where to store dataset, by default it is R working directory

Details

If error occurs, a specific error is printed

Value

None

GRangesList containing all GMQL samples in dataset

Examples

## Download dataset in R working directory
## In this case we try to download a dataset of the user 
## (public datasets from remote repository cannot be downloaded)

## Not run: 

remote_url = "http://www.gmql.eu/gmql-rest/"
login_gmql(remote_url)
download_dataset(remote_url, "Example_Dataset_1", path = getwd())

## Create GRangesList from user dataset Example_Dataset1 got 
## from repository

download_as_GRangesList(remote_url, "Example_Dataset_1")

## End(Not run)

DEIB-GECO/RGMQL documentation built on Feb. 17, 2024, 10:39 p.m.