get_cancer_types: Retrieve Cancer Types.

In dami82/TCGAretriever: Retrieve Genomic and Clinical Data from CBioPortal Including TCGA Data

Retrieve Cancer Types.

Description

Retrieve information about cancer types and corresponding abbreviations from cbioportal.org. Information include identifiers, names, and parental cancer type.

Usage

get_cancer_types(dryrun = FALSE)

Arguments

dryrun

Logical. If TRUE, all other arguments (if any) are ignored and a representative example is returned as output. No Internet connection is required for executing the operation when 'dryrun' is TRUE.

Value

A data.frame including cancer type information.

Author(s)

Damiano Fantini, [e-mail]

References

https://www.data-pulse.com/dev_site/TCGAretriever/

Examples

# Set `dryrun = FALSE` (default option) in production!
all_canc <- get_cancer_types(dryrun = TRUE)
utils::head(all_canc)

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