downloadGEOData: Download datasets from GEO database

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Download datasets from GEO database

Description

Download different ExpressionSets objects from the GEO database

Usage

downloadGEOData(GEOobject, directory = getwd())

Arguments

GEOobject	a vector of character where each element represents a GEO object for downloading.
directory	The directory where the different downloaded GSE Series Matrix files from GEO will be stored. By default they are downloaded to the working directory

Details

This function internally uses getGEO function of GEOquery package. However, downloadGEO allows you to download multiple files at the same time.

Value

A list of the different ExpressionSets

Author(s)

Juan Antonio Villatoro Garcia, [e-mail]

References

Davis, S. and Meltzer, P. S. GEOquery: a bridge between the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and BioConductor. Bioinformatics, 2007, 14, 1846-1847

Examples

## Not run: 
GEOobjects<- c("GSE4588", "GSE10325")
dataGEO<-downloadGEOData(GEOobjects)
dataGEO

## End(Not run)

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