Download and load GTEx data

Download and load GTEx data

Usage

loadGtexData(
  folder = getDownloadsFolder(),
  data = getGtexDataTypes(),
  tissue = NULL,
  release = getGtexReleases()[[1]],
  progress = TRUE
)

Arguments

folder

Character: folder containing data

data

Character: data types to load (see getGtexDataTypes)

tissue

Character: tissues to load (if NULL, load all); tissue selection may speed up data loading

release

Numeric: GTEx data release to load

progress

Boolean: display progress?

Value

List with loaded data

See also

Other functions associated with GTEx data retrieval: getDownloadsFolder(), getGtexDataTypes(), getGtexTissues()

Other functions to load data: loadLocalFiles(), loadSRAproject(), loadTCGAdata()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Download and load all available GTEx data
data <- loadGtexData()

# Download and load only junction quantification and sample info from GTEx
getGtexDataTypes()
data <- loadGtexData(data=c("sampleInfo", "junctionQuant"))

# Download and load only data for specific tissues
getGtexTissues()
data <- loadGtexData(tissue=c("Stomach", "Small Intestine"))

# Download and load data from a specific GTEx data release
data <- loadGtexData(tissue=c("Stomach", "Small Intestine"), release=7)
} # }