loadGEO {phantasus} | R Documentation

## Load GEO Dataset.

### Description

`loadGEO` returns the file with serialized ExpressionSet using ProtoBuf, parsed from data downloaded from GEO by identifier.

### Usage

    loadGEO(name, type = NA)

### Arguments

`name` | String, containing GEO identifier of the dataset. It should start with 'GSE' or 'GDS' and can include exact GPL to annotate dataset, separated with dash ('-') from the identifier.
`type` | Type of the dataset: 'GSE' or 'GDS'. If not specified, the function will take first three letters of `name` variable as type.

### Value

File with ProtoBuf-serialized ExpressionSet-s that were downloaded by this identifier. For GSE-datasets there can be multiple annotations, so in file will be a list mapping name with GPL to ExpressionSet.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
        loadGEO("GSE27112")
        loadGEO("GDS4922")

    ## End(Not run)

[Package phantasus version 1.6.0 Index]