downloadHugoLookupTable: Obtain full HUGO gene symbol look up table.

In biodev/packageDir: Tool for in silico functional analysis design and exploration of relation between genomic function and aberration.

Description

The function attempts to download the HUGO lookup table (includes previous symbols, synonyms and chromosome corrdinates) from the HGNC website genenames.org.

Usage

  downloadHugoLookupTable(curhugofname = "./reference_data/current_hugo_table_slim.txt",
  autoDownLoad = F)

Arguments

curhugofname	character string The location the symbol lookup table should be saved. Default is the local directory at ./reference_data/current_hugo_table_slim.txt. For this program to use the full HUGO table, the file needs to be left here.
autoDownLoad	logical A flag indicating if the program should automatically attempt to download the table (T) or if it should just display information on how to manually download the table (F).

biodev/packageDir documentation built on Nov. 4, 2019, 7:19 a.m.