btGet-methods: Get items from BioThings APIs

In biothings/BioThingsClient.R: BioThings Client (https://github.com/biothings/BioThingsClient.R)

Description

Use gene, taxon, variant, chemical and other IDs to get annotation information from BioThings APIs.

Usage

btGet(biothings, ids, fields, ..., return.as = "records")

## S4 method for signature 'BioThingsClient'
btGet(biothings, ids, fields, ...,
  return.as = "records")

## S4 method for signature 'character'
btGet(biothings, ids, fields, ...,
  return.as = "records")

## S4 method for signature 'missing'
btGet(biothings, ids, fields, ..., return.as = "records")

Arguments

biothings	BioThings object or character .
ids	character.
fields	Specify fields to receive from API
...	Other parameters to pass to API
return.as	character.

Value

The API response in the form of the provided argument return.as

Examples

#Equivalent:

btGet("gene", "1017", fields = c("symbol","name","taxid","entrezgene"),
      return.as = "text")

biothings/BioThingsClient.R documentation built on Jan. 8, 2020, 9:31 p.m.