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ELMER (version 1.4.2)

getRNAseq: getRNAseq to download all RNAseq data for a certain cancer type from TCGA.

Description

getRNAseq is a function to download RNAseq data for all samples of a certain cancer type from TCGA

Usage

getRNAseq(disease, basedir = "./Data")

Arguments

disease
A character specifies disease in TCGA such as BLCA
basedir
A path shows where the data will be stored.

Value

Download all RNA seq level 3 data for the specified disease.

References

https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/tcgaHome2.jsp