getES {phantasus} | R Documentation

## Load ExpressionSet by GEO identifier

### Description

`getES` return the ExpressionSet object(s) corresponding to GEO identifier.

### Usage

    getES(
      name,
      type = NA,
      destdir = tempdir(),
      mirrorPath = "https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov"
    )

### Arguments

`name` | String, containing GEO identifier of the dataset. It should start with 'GSE' or 'GDS' and can include exact GPL to annotate dataset, separated with dash ('-') from the identifier.
`type` | Type of the dataset: 'GSE' or 'GDS'. If not specified, the function will take first three letters of `name` variable as type.
`destdir` | Directory for caching loaded Series and GPL files from GEO database.
`mirrorPath` | URL string which specifies the source of matrices.

### Value

List of ExpressionSet objects, that were available by given in `name` variable GEO identifier.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
        getES('GSE14308', type = 'GSE', destdir = 'cache')
        getES('GSE27112')

    ## End(Not run)
    getES('GDS4922')

[Package phantasus version 1.10.0 Index]