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get450K: get450K to download HM40K DNA methylation data for certain cancer types from TCGA website.
Description
get450K is a function to download latest version of HM450K DNA methylation for all samples of certain cancer types from TCGA website.
Usage
get450K(disease, basedir = "./Data")
Arguments
disease
A character specifies the disease to download from TCGA such as BLCA
basedir
A path shows where the data will be stored.
Value
Download all DNA methylation from HM450K level 3 data for the specified disease.
References
https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/tcgaHome2.jsp