- Author: Hong Xu, Hilmar Lapp
- Maintainer: Hilmar Lapp
Most of the services provided with the Phenoscape Knowledgebase web API return data in JSON format, plain text (usually tab-delimited), and NeXML. This package facilitates interfacing with the Phenoscape Knowledgebase for searching ontology terms, retrieving term info, and querying data matrices.
The development version of RPhenoscape is available on Github. It has not yet been released to CRAN. To install RPhenoscape from Github, use the install_github() function in the remotes package (which can be installed from CRAN using install.packages()):
remotes::install_github("phenoscape/rphenoscape")By default, this will skip building the package vignettes. To build and install package vignettes as well, you must have recent versions of the knitr and rmarkdown packages installed, and use additional parameters, depending on the version of the remotes package you have installed, to request building vignettes.
packageVersion("remotes")## [1] '2.0.4'
If the version is 2.1.0 or higher, use the build_vignettes parameter (which by default is FALSE):
remotes::install_github("phenoscape/rphenoscape", build_vignettes = TRUE)If the version of remotes is lower, use the build_opts parameter:
remotes::install_github("phenoscape/rphenoscape", build_opts=c("--no-manual"))Once installed, the package can be loaded ("attached") as any other R package:
library(rphenoscape)The functionality and operations of the RPhenoscape package can be viewed on the dedicated package website: http://rphenoscape.phenoscape.org/
Use cases described there include the following:
- Using OntoTrace to obtain a character matrix
- Obtaining the character matrices for studies published for a taxonomic clade
- Subsetting matrices by taxonomic subgroup or anatomical part
- Searching for details for a given taxon
