Thanks Peter for the information.

On 4/19/06, Peter (BioC) <bioconductor-mailinglist@maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Sharon wrote:
> > And, another related question is: How can I use *getGEO() * with the
> > already downloaded GSE2718.soft.gz  file (to avoid subsequent
> > downlaoding).
>
> Use the filename argument to getGEO to parse and existing file, rather
> than downloading it again.  For example:
>
> library(Biobase)
> library(GEOquery)
>
> #Download GEO file, put it in the current directory, and load it:
> gse <- getGEO('GSE2718', destdir=".")
>
> #Or, open an existing GEO file (even if its compressed):
> gse <- getGEO(filename='GSE2718.soft.gz')
>
> Peter
>
>

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