KEGG_get: KEGG download API

In zgzhao/gmetab: syzMetab: R package for metabolic network analysis

Description

API for downloding KEGG info with KEGG offical rest API.

Usage

KEGG_get(
  qid,
  d.path = "KEGG",
  f.type = c("kgml", "image", "htext"),
  force.download = FALSE
)

Arguments

qid	KEGG query id such as KEGG ortholog id like "ko00010", gene name like "ath:AT1G00010" or organism name like "ath" (for KEGG brite file only).
d.path	Destination path (folder) to save or load downloaded file.
f.type	Character string, file type of KEGG entry: "kgml", "aaseq", "ntseq" or "image".
force.download	TRUE/FALSE (default). Force update if TRUE and file exists.

Details

Download XML, image (png), AA sequence or NT sequence file from KEGG website. An alternative function is keggGet implemented in "KEGGREST" package.

Value

path to the saved file.

Author(s)

ZG Zhao

zgzhao/gmetab documentation built on Dec. 23, 2021, 9:17 p.m.