Retrieve All Available Filters for a Specific Dataset

This funcion queries the BioMart API and returns a table storing all available filters for a specific dataset.

Usage

getFilters(mart, dataset, mute_citation = FALSE)

Arguments

mart

a character string specifying the database (mart) for which datasets shall be listed.

dataset

a character string specifying the dataset for which filters shall be listed.

mute_citation

logical value indicating whether citation message should be muted.

See also

getMarts, getDatasets, getAttributes, organismBM, organismFilters, organismAttributes

Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# search for available datasets
# getMarts()
# choose database (mart): "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL"
# head(getDatasets(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL"), 10)
# choose dataset: "hsapiens_gene_ensembl"
head(getFilters(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL",
                dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl") , 5)
} # }