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Check for ENCODE input

Source: R/check_ENCODE.R
check_ENCODE.Rd

Check and get files from ENCODE project. Requires the input to be in ENCODE ID format. Uses BiocFileCache to cache downloads. Only works for files.

Usage

check_ENCODE(encode_id, expect_format, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

encode_id

A character string specifying the ENCODE ID.

expect_format

A character string (or a vector) specifying the expected format(s) of the file. If the file is not in the expected format, an error is thrown.

verbose

A logical indicating whether to print verbose messages while running the function. (default = FALSE)

Value

A character string specifying the path to the downloaded file.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("curl", quietly = TRUE) &&
    requireNamespace("jsonlite", quietly = TRUE)) {
    check_ENCODE("ENCFF920TXI", expect_format = c("bed", "gz"))
}
#>                                                                 BFC2 
#> "/github/home/.cache/R/BiocFileCache/3943236d276_ENCFF920TXI.bed.gz"