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Download all elements of an NCBI databse

Source: R/download_database_all.R
download.database.all.Rd

The download.database functions allows users to retrieve individual packages of a NCBI database. This function is designed to retrieve the entire database selected by the users (hence all packages corresponding to this database).

Usage

download.database.all(db, path = NULL)

Arguments

db

a character string specifying the database that shall be downloaded (selected from listDatabases).

path

a character string specifying the location (a folder) in which the corresponding database shall be stored. In case this folder does not exist yet, it will be created.

Value

A character vector storing the file paths of the downloaded databases.

See also

download.database, listNCBIDatabases

Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# search for available NCBI databases
  listNCBIDatabases(db = "all")
# choose database NCBI nr and download compelete database
  download.database.all(db = "nr", path = "nr")
} # }