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In MRCIEU/ewascatalog-r: R package to query the EWAS Catalog from R

ewascatalog

This package allows users to query the EWAS Catalog from R.

Installation

You can install the package from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("MRCIEU/ewascatalog-r")

Examples

The EWAS Catalog database (http://www.ewascatalog.org/) can be queried using the ewascatalog() function. Please see examples below:

library(ewascatalog)
## CpG site query
res <- ewascatalog("cg00029284", "cpg")

## Region query
res <- ewascatalog("6:15000000-25000000", "region")
#> Warning in ewascatalog("6:15000000-25000000", "region"): NAs introduced by
#> coercion

## Gene
res <- ewascatalog("FTO", "gene")
#> Warning in ewascatalog("FTO", "gene"): NAs introduced by coercion

## Trait
res <- ewascatalog("body mass index", "trait")
#> Warning in ewascatalog("body mass index", "trait"): NAs introduced by coercion

## EFO
res <- ewascatalog("EFO_0002950", "efo")
#> Warning in ewascatalog("EFO_0002950", "efo"): NAs introduced by coercion

## Study
res <- ewascatalog("27040690", "study")
#> Warning in ewascatalog("27040690", "study"): NAs introduced by coercion

MRCIEU/ewascatalog-r documentation built on July 4, 2022, 1:19 a.m.