get_genetic_profiles: Retrieve Genetic Profiles for a TCGA Study of Interest

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

Retrieve Genetic Profiles for a TCGA Study of Interest

Description

Retrieve Information about all genetic profiles associated with a cancer study of interest. Each cancer study includes one or more types of molecular analyses. The corresponding assays or platforms are referred to as genetic profiles. A genetic profile identifier is required to download molecular data.

Usage

get_genetic_profiles(csid = NULL, dryrun = FALSE)

Arguments

csid	String corresponding to the cancer study id of interest
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

data.frame including information about genetic profiles.

Author(s)

Damiano Fantini, [e-mail]

References

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

Examples

# Set `dryrun = FALSE` (default option) in production!
get_genetic_profiles("blca_tcga", dryrun = TRUE)  

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