connections {ChemmineR} | R Documentation

## Database Connections

### Description

Get a connection to one of the pre-build compound databases. The DrugBank database is distributed in the ChemmineDrugs package.

The DUD database will be downloaded the first time it is called. It will download a 1.8GB zipped file which will expand to abut 9GB. A directory to store the database in can be passed to the `DUD()` function.

### Usage

    DUD(destinationDir=".")

    DrugBank()

### Arguments

`destinationDir` | The directory to store the downloaded DUD database in.

### Value

A connection object to the ether the DUD or DrugBank database. This object must be passed to other functions which make use of the connection.

### Author(s)

Kevin Horan

### Examples

    	dbConn = DrugBank()

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