downloadHugoLookupTable: Obtain full HUGO gene symbol look up table.

Description Usage Arguments

Description

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

Usage

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  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.