TCGAquery_SampleTypes {TCGAbiolinks} | R Documentation

## Retrieve multiple tissue types not from the same patients.

### Description

TCGAquery_SampleTypes for a given list of samples and types, return the union of samples that are from theses type.

### Usage

    TCGAquery_SampleTypes(barcode, typesample)

### Arguments

`barcode` | is a list of samples as TCGA barcodes
`typesample` | a character vector indicating tissue type to query. Example:
TP | PRIMARY SOLID TUMOR
TR | RECURRENT SOLID TUMOR
TB | Primary Blood Derived Cancer-Peripheral Blood
TRBM | Recurrent Blood Derived Cancer-Bone Marrow
TAP | Additional-New Primary
TM | Metastatic
TAM | Additional Metastatic
THOC | Human Tumor Original Cells
TBM | Primary Blood Derived Cancer-Bone Marrow
NB | Blood Derived Normal
NT | Solid Tissue Normal
NBC | Buccal Cell Normal
NEBV | EBV Immortalized Normal
NBM | Bone Marrow Normal

### Value

a list of samples / barcode filtered by type sample selected

### Examples

    # selection of normal samples "NT"
    barcode <- c("TCGA-B0-4698-01Z-00-DX1","TCGA-CZ-4863-02Z-00-DX1")
    # Returns the second barcode
     TCGAquery_SampleTypes(barcode,"TR")
     # Returns both barcode
     TCGAquery_SampleTypes(barcode,c("TR","TP"))
     barcode <- c("TARGET-20-PANSBH-14A-02D","TARGET-20-PANSBH-01A-02D",
                  "TCGA-B0-4698-01Z-00-DX1","TCGA-CZ-4863-02Z-00-DX1")
      TCGAquery_SampleTypes(barcode,c("TR","TP"))

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