listMarts {biomaRt}R Documentation

list the BioMart database covered by biomaRt package

Description

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.

Usage

listMarts(mart, host, user, password, port, includeHosts = FALSE, mysql=FALSE)

Arguments

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.

Author(s)

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

See Also

Examples

if(interactive()){
listMarts()
}

[Package biomaRt version 1.8.2 Index]