[BioC] getGEO function to load files from other locations than GEO ?

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Fri Jun 1 16:31:09 CEST 2007


On Friday 01 June 2007 09:16, Wolfgang Raffelsberger wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm trying to see if one could use the getGEO function (GEOquery
> package) to load files from other locations than GEO.
> In particular I'd like to load data from a local directory (under Windows).
> I see that getGEOfile() function passes the specific GEO url to
> download.file, but I haven't been successful in changing this ...
> Any suggestions ?

Hi, Wolfgang.

See the help for getGEO.  There is a filename argument that does exactly what 
you are describing.  

Sean



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