Helper function to retrieve the assembly_summary.txt file from NCBI

Retrieval function of the assembly_summary.txt file from NCBI.

Usage

getSummaryFile(db, kingdom, file = assemblies_info_path(db, kingdom))

Arguments

db

database name. E.g. refseq or genbank.

kingdom

kingdom for which assembly_summary.txt file shall be retrieved. See also getKingdoms.

file

path, local path to total summary file, default is in tmp folder.

See also

getKingdomAssemblySummary, getMetaGenomeSummary

Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
test <- getSummaryFile("refseq","plant")
test
} # }