Downloading the full set of genes information from HGNC

This function retrieves the full table of curated genes annotations

getInfo(
  group = c("sudo", "docker"),
  data.folder = getwd(),
  url,
  type = c("pubmed", "omim")
)

Arguments

group,	a character string. Two options: "sudo" or "docker", depending to which group the user belongs
data.folder,	a character string indicating where downloaded data will be stored
url,	the url to download the full dataset
type,	PUBMED or OMIM

Value

one file files: gene_with_protein_product.txt

Examples

if (FALSE) {
    getInfo(group="docker",data.folder=getwd(),
    url="ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/genenames/new/tsv/locus_types/gene_with_protein_product.txt", type="pubmed")

}