cgcConn {restfulSE} | R Documentation

## Simplify connection to a BigQuery dataset for the project "isb-cgc"

### Description

Simplify connection to a BigQuery dataset for the project "isb-cgc"

### Usage

    cgcConn(dataset = "TCGA_bioclin_v0", project = "isb-cgc",
      billing = Sys.getenv("CGC_BILLING"))

### Arguments

`dataset` | character string with dataset name
`project` | character string with project name
`billing` | character(1) with billing code

### Value

instance of `BigQueryConnection-class`

### Note

This function operates on a BigQuery project to select a dataset and return a connection. If the google billing code is assigned to environment variable `CGC_BILLING`, that will be used to authenticate the user and collect charges. Alternately the billing code can be given as a parameter.

### Examples

    cgcConn
    require(bigrquery)
    # defaults concern new GDC-compliant format
    if (nchar(Sys.getenv("CGC_BILLING"))>0) {
        clin = cgcConn()
        dbListTables(clin)
    }

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