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Retrieve ENSEMBL info file

Source: R/getENSEMBLInfo.R
getENSEMBLInfo.Rd

Retrieve species and genome information from http://rest.ensembl.org/info/species?content-type=application/json/.

Usage

getENSEMBLInfo(update = FALSE, divisions = ensembl_divisions())

Arguments

update

logical, default FALSE. If TRUE, update cached list, if FALSE use existing cache (if it exists). For cache location see cachedir()

divisions

character, name of divisions to check, default is all from ensembl_divisions(). If NULL, also all is used.

Value

a tibble table storing info for all available ENSEMBL divisions.

See also

ensembl_divisions, get.ensembl.info, getKingdomAssemblySummary

Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# look at available divisions
ensembl_divisions()
# retrieve information for all ENSEMBL divisions at once
test <- getENSEMBLInfo()
test
# retrieve information for a particular ENSEMBL division (e.g. EnsemblVertebrates)
test_vertebrates <- get.ensembl.info(update = TRUE, division = "EnsemblVertebrates")
test_vertebrates
}