loadTable: Load downloaded annotation table into a data.frame object

In jeffbhasin/genomesyncr: genomesyncr: Download, Synchronize, and Parse UCSC Genome Browser Tables from R

Description

After downloading the table for a genome using syncTable, this function loads all data into a data.frame object. The headers for the table are extracted from the accompanying SQL schema file.

Usage

  loadTable(genome, table, local)

Arguments

genome	The UCSC string specific to the genome to be downloaded (e.g. "hg19", "hg19", "mm10", etc)
table	The UCSC string specific for the table to sync (e.g. "knownGene", "kgXref", etc)
local	The root of a local directory where all files downloaded from UCSC are stored

Value

A data.frame object with UCSC's column headers for the specified table.

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