This function queries the BioMart Interface and returns a table storing all available attributes for a specific dataset.
Arguments
- mart
a character string specifying the database (mart) for which datasets shall be listed.
- dataset
a character string specifying the dataset for which attributes shall be listed.
Examples
if (FALSE) {
# search for available datasets
getMarts()
# choose database (mart): ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL
# and get a table of all available datasets from this BioMart database
head(getDatasets(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL"), 10)
# choose dataset: "hsapiens_gene_ensembl"
head(getAttributes(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL",
dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl") , 5)
}