Get GEO supplemental file URL for a given GEO accession

Get GEO supplemental file URL for a given GEO accession

Usage

getGEOSuppFileURL(GEO)

Arguments

GEO

A GEO accession, e.g. a Series ("GSE..."), Sample ("GSM..."), or Platform ("GPL...") id. The accession type determines which FTP suppl/ directory URL is returned.

Value

A character(1) URL of the accession's supplementary-file directory on the NCBI GEO FTP site.

Examples

# an example of a GEO supplemental file URL
# with a set of single-cell RNA-seq data
url = getGEOSuppFileURL("GSE161228")
url
#> [1] "https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE161nnn/GSE161228/suppl/"

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  browseURL(url)
} # }