gdcParseMetadata {GDCRNATools} | R Documentation

## Parse metadata

### Description

Parse metadata either by providing the .json file that is downloaded from GDC cart or by parse metadata automatically by providing the projct id and data type

### Usage

    gdcParseMetadata(metafile = NULL, project.id, data.type,
      write.meta = FALSE)

### Arguments

`metafile` | metadata file in `.json` format download from GDC cart. If provided, the metadata will be parsed from this file, otherwise, `project` and `data.type` arguments should be provided to retrieve metadata automatically. Default is `NULL`
`project.id` | project id in GDC
`data.type` | one of `'RNAseq'` and `'miRNAs'`
`write.meta` | logical, whether to write the metadata to a `.json` file

### Value

A dataframe of metadata containing file_name, sample_id, etc. as well as some basic clinical data

### Author(s)

Ruidong Li and Han Qu

### Examples

    ####### Merge RNA expression data #######
    metaMatrix <- gdcParseMetadata(project.id='TARGET-RT', data.type='RNAseq')

[Package GDCRNATools version 1.13.1 Index]