listMarts {biomaRt}R Documentation

lists the avilable BioMart databases

Description

This function returns a list of BioMart databases to which biomaRt can connect to. By default all public BioMart databases are displayed. To establish a connection use the useMart function.

Usage

listMarts(mart, host="www.biomart.org", path="/biomart/martservice", port=80, includeHosts = FALSE, archive=FALSE, user, password,mysql=FALSE)

Arguments

mart mart object created with the useMart function
host host to connect to if different then www.biomart.org
path path to martservice that should be pasted behind the host to get to web service URL
port port to use in HTTP communication
includeHosts boolean to indicate if function should return host of the BioMart databases
archive Boolean to indicate if you want to access archived versions of BioMart database
user MySQL access is no longer available through this package
password MySQL access is no longer available through this package
mysql MySQL access is no longer available through this package. All queries can be made through the web service mode. use mysql=FALSE

Author(s)

Steffen Durinck, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~steffen

Examples

if(interactive()){
listMarts()
}

[Package biomaRt version 2.0.0 Index]