xnat_connection: Make a connection to an XNAT server

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Make a connection to an XNAT server

Description

Make the XNAT connection and provides functions to retrieve the list of projects, experiments and subjects.

Usage

xnat_connect(base_url, username = NULL, password = NULL, xnat_name = NULL, ...)

Arguments

base_url	the URL for the XNAT server
username	user name to use for connection. If NULL this can be provided through the xxx_WEB_USER system variable where xxx is provided by the xnat_name parameter
password	user name to use for connection. If NULL this can be provided through the xxx_WEB_PASS system variable where xxx is provided by the xnat_name parameter
xnat_name	prefix to use for retrieving the proper username/pass system variables for a specific XNAT server
...	additional arguments passed to curlPerform.

Value

projects

Examples

## Connect to the NITRC.ORG database
## Not run: xnat_connect('https://nitrc.org/ir', xnat_name='NITRC')

## Connect to the XNAT.CENTRAL database
## Not run: xnat_connect('https://central.xnat.org', xnat_name="CENTRAL")

neuroconductor/Rxnat documentation built on April 1, 2024, 9:44 p.m.