getSpecies              package:biomaRt              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Displays species identifiers currently present in Ensembl

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getSpecies(mart, db = c("ensembl"))

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

      db: database to query, only works for Ensembl

    mart: object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart
          databases.  You can creat such an object using the function
          martConnect.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Steffen Durinck, <URL: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     if(interactive()){
     mart <- martConnect()

     species =getSpecies(mart = mart)
     show(species)

     martDisconnect(mart = mart)
     }

