TCGAretriever (version 1.9.1)

expand_cases: Samples Included in a List of Samples.

Description

Each study includes one or more "case lists". Each case list is a collection of samples that were analyzed using one or more platforms/assays. It is possible to obtain a list of all sample identifiers for each case list of interest.

Usage

expand_cases(csid, dryrun = FALSE)

Value

list containing as many elements as TCGA case lists available for a given TCGA Study. Each element is named after a case list identifier. Also, each element is a character vector including all sample identifiers (case ids) corresponding to the corresponding case list identifier.

Arguments

csid

String corresponding to a TCGA Cancer Study identifier.

dryrun

Logical. If TRUE, all other arguments (if any) are ignored and a representative example is returned as output. No Internet connection is required for executing the operation when `dryrun` is TRUE.

Author

Damiano Fantini,

References

https://www.data-pulse.com/dev_site/TCGAretriever/

Examples

# Set `dryrun = FALSE` (default option) in production!
x <- expand_cases("blca_tcga", dryrun = TRUE)
lapply(x, utils::head)