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getClinic: getClinic to download clinic data for certain cancer types from TCGA website.
Description
getClinic is a function to download latest version of clinic data for all samples of certain cancer types from TCGA website.
Usage
getClinic(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 clinic information for the specified disease.
References
https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/tcgaHome2.jsp