cBioPortalData: User Start Guide

In cBioPortalData: Exposes and makes available data from the cBioPortal web resources

knitr::opts_chunk$set(cache = TRUE)

Installation

library(cBioPortalData)
library(AnVIL)

Introduction

This vignette lays out the two main user-facing functions for downloading and representing data from the cBioPortal API. cBioDataPack makes use of the legacy distribution data method in cBioPortal (via tarballs). cBioPortalData allows for a more flexibile approach to obtaining data based on several available parameters including available molecular profiles.

Two main interfaces

cBioDataPack: Obtain Study Data as Zipped Tarballs

This function will access the packaged data from \url{cBioPortal.org/datasets} and return an integrative MultiAssayExperiment representation.

## Use ask=FALSE for non-interactive use
cBioDataPack("laml_tcga", ask = FALSE)

cBioPortalData: Obtain data from the cBioPortal API

This function provides a more flexible and granular way to request a MultiAssayExperiment object from a study ID, molecular profile, gene panel, sample list.

cbio <- cBioPortal()
acc <- cBioPortalData(api = cbio, by = "hugoGeneSymbol", studyId = "acc_tcga",
    genePanelId = "IMPACT341",
    molecularProfileIds = c("acc_tcga_rppa", "acc_tcga_linear_CNA")
)
acc

Clearing the cache

cBioDataPack

In cases where a download is interrupted, the user may experience a corrupt cache. The user can clear the cache for a particular study by using the removeCache function. Note that this function only works for data downloaded through the cBioDataPack function.

removeCache("laml_tcga")

cBioPortalData

For users who wish to clear the entire cBioPortalData cache, it is recommended that they use:

unlink("~/.cache/cBioPortalData/")

sessionInfo

sessionInfo()

cBioPortalData documentation built on April 17, 2021, 6:07 p.m.