Get Supplemental Files from GEO — getGEOSuppFiles • GEOquery

# Get Supplemental Files from GEO

NCBI GEO allows supplemental files to be attached to GEO Series (GSE), GEO platforms (GPL), and GEO samples (GSM). This function "knows" how to get these files based on the GEO accession. No parsing of the downloaded files is attempted, since the file format is not generally knowable by the computer.

    getGEOSuppFiles(GEO, makeDirectory = TRUE, baseDir = getwd())

## Arguments

GEO
  A GEO accession number such as GPL1073 or GSM1137
makeDirectory
  Should a "subdirectory" for the downloaded files be created? Default is TRUE. If FALSE, the files will be downloaded directly into the baseDir.
baseDir
  The base directory for the downloads. Default is the current working directory.

## Details

Again, just a note that the files are simply downloaded.

## Value

A data frame is returned invisibly with rownames representing the full path of the resulting downloaded files and the records in the data.frame the output of file.info for each downloaded file.

## Examples

    # a <- getGEOSuppFiles('GSM1137')
    # a

## Author

Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>