listMarts {biomaRt} | R Documentation |
This function returns a list for marts to which it can connect to. To establish a connection use the function martConnect with argument the name in the list (not the actual value e.g. use ensembl and not the full string of the database including release version). You can also use this function to get the release information of the current databases which you using.
listMarts(mart, host, user, password, port, includeHosts = FALSE, mysql=FALSE)
mart |
mart object |
host |
host to connect to |
user |
username |
password |
password |
port |
port to connect to via MySQL |
includeHosts |
boolean to indicate if function should return host of the BioMart databases |
mysql |
Boolean to indicate to retrieve data from BioMart database via MySQL or via the BioMart webservice. Default is via the webservice. |
Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck
if(interactive()){ listMarts() }