download_ctd_dise {CTDquerier} | R Documentation

## Function to download diseases available in CTDbase

### Description

This function download the "Disease vocabulary" file (`CTD_diseases.tsv.gz`) from `http://ctdbase.org/downloads`.

### Usage

    download_ctd_dise(verbose = FALSE, ask = TRUE)

### Arguments

`verbose` | (default `FALSE`) If set to `TRUE` is shows relevant information of each step.
`ask` | (default `TRUE`) If `TRUE` it asks the the persistent location must be used.

### Details

The field included in the file (`CTD_diseases.tsv.gz`) are:

1. DiseaseName

2. DiseaseID (MeSH or OMIM identifier)

3. Definition

4. AltDiseaseIDs (alternative identifiers; '|'-delimited list)

5. ParentIDs (identifiers of the parent terms; '|'-delimited list)

6. TreeNumbers (identifiers of the disease's nodes; '|'-delimited list)

7. ParentTreeNumbers (identifiers of the parent nodes; '|'-delimited list)

8. Synonyms ('|'-delimited list)

9. SlimMappings (MEDIC-Slim mappings; '|'-delimited list)

### Value

Passed name into `filename` argument if it could be download `1` otherwise.

### Examples

    download_ctd_dise()
    file.exists( "CTD_diseases.tsv.gz" )

[Package CTDquerier version 2.2.0 Index]