get_cancer_studies {TCGAretriever}

Retrieve the List of Cancer Studies Available at cbioportal.

Description

Retrieve information about the studies or datasets available at cbioportal.org. Information include a 'studyId', description, references, and more.

Usage

get_cancer_studies(dryrun = FALSE)

Arguments

dryrun

Logical. If TRUE, all other arguments (if any) are ignored and a representative example is returned as output. No Internet connection is required for executing the operation when 'dryrun' is TRUE.

Value

Data Frame including cancer study information.

Author(s)

Damiano Fantini, [e-mail]

References

https://www.data-pulse.com/dev_site/TCGAretriever/

Examples

# Set `dryrun = FALSE` (default option) in production!
all_studies <- get_cancer_studies(dryrun = TRUE)
utils::head(all_studies)