biomaRt (version 2.28.0)

listMarts: lists the avilable BioMart databases

Description

This function returns a list of BioMart databases to which biomaRt can connect to. By default all public BioMart databases are displayed. To establish a connection use the useMart function.

Usage

listMarts(mart = NULL, host="www.ensembl.org", path="/biomart/martservice", port=80, includeHosts = FALSE, archive=FALSE, ssl.verifypeer=TRUE, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

mart

mart object created with the useMart function. This is optional, as you usually use listMarts to see which marts there are to connect to.

host

host to connect to if different then www.biomart.org

path

path to martservice that should be pasted behind the host to get to web service URL

port

port to use in HTTP communication

includeHosts

boolean to indicate if function should return host of the BioMart databases

archive

Boolean to indicate if you want to access archived versions of BioMart database

ssl.verifypeer

Set SSL peer verification on or off. By default ssl.verifypeer is set to TRUE

verbose

Give detailed output of what the method is doing, for debugging purposes

Examples

if(interactive()){
listMarts()
}