The GEO Series records often have one or more supplemental files. In most cases, those files are archived as '.tar' files, the contents of which are only available in a file listing file not present on the website for download.
Examples
getGEOSeriesFileListing('GSE288770')
#> Rows: 17 Columns: 5
#> ── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> Delimiter: "\t"
#> chr (4): #Archive/File, Name, Time, Type
#> dbl (1): Size
#>
#> ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
#> ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.
#> # A tibble: 17 × 5
#> archive_or_file name time size type
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr>
#> 1 Archive GSE288770_RAW.tar 08/0… 1.20e8 TAR
#> 2 File GSM8775062_vitro_contol_filtered_feature_… 02/0… 3.01e7 H5
#> 3 File GSM8775063_vitro_vasc_filtered_feature_bc… 02/0… 1.54e7 H5
#> 4 File GSM8775064_vitro_neuro_filtered_feature_b… 02/0… 2.72e7 H5
#> 5 File GSM8775065_vitro_odont_filtered_feature_b… 02/0… 2.22e7 H5
#> 6 File GSM8775066_vivo_day7_1_barcodes.tsv.gz 02/0… 3.36e3 TSV
#> 7 File GSM8775066_vivo_day7_1_features.tsv.gz 02/0… 3.34e5 TSV
#> 8 File GSM8775066_vivo_day7_1_matrix.mtx.gz 02/0… 2.98e6 MTX
#> 9 File GSM8775067_vivo_day7_2_barcodes.tsv.gz 02/0… 7.95e3 TSV
#> 10 File GSM8775067_vivo_day7_2_features.tsv.gz 02/0… 3.34e5 TSV
#> 11 File GSM8775067_vivo_day7_2_matrix.mtx.gz 02/0… 1.28e7 MTX
#> 12 File GSM8775068_vivo_day21_1_barcodes.tsv.gz 02/0… 9.71e3 TSV
#> 13 File GSM8775068_vivo_day21_1_features.tsv.gz 02/0… 3.34e5 TSV
#> 14 File GSM8775068_vivo_day21_1_matrix.mtx.gz 02/0… 5.72e6 MTX
#> 15 File GSM8775069_vivo_day21_2_barcodes.tsv.gz 02/0… 2.1 e3 TSV
#> 16 File GSM8775069_vivo_day21_2_features.tsv.gz 02/0… 3.34e5 TSV
#> 17 File GSM8775069_vivo_day21_2_matrix.mtx.gz 02/0… 2.41e6 MTX