These clients are available for public use to access to bioinformatics tools available at the EBI. For examples of how to use these tools, please see the API Client Calls.R script
If you are using these clients for the first time ensure you run the following commands to install the necessary libraries:
- install.packages("RCurl")
- install.packages("readr")
- install.packages("stringr")
This only need to be done the first time you use any of the clients and the libraries will be automatically loaded when using any of the clients after this.
This repository can be linked to your R/RStudio:
- To link you need to donwload Git(https://gist.github.com/derhuerst/1b15ff4652a867391f03#file-linux-md). Git for Windows can also be downloaded from here (https://gitforwindows.org/)
- Once Git is downloaded, go into RStudio and click File > New Project > Version Control > Git
- Then in the repository URL, copy the URL for this repoistory and then choose where the files should be saved
You should now have an up to date version of this repository. Repository can be updated using the Pull option in the Git tab in the upper right hand box of RStudio.
You may need to restart RStudio for the Git download to be recognised.
The files in this repsoitory are subject to regualr changes so ensure your version of the repsoitory is updated regularly.